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by Jonathan Harris and  Anne-Marie Codur The United Nations Climate Change Conference known as COP27 took place in Sharm-El-Sheik, Egypt, this November. Opinions differ on whether the conference should be rated a success or a failure, but there were both some clear... Read More →

By Pratistha Joshi Rajkarnikar As the world has undergone seismic shifts over the last few years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, rising social and economic inequality and the escalating climate crisis, new approaches to economics are needed to reflect the complexities of this... Read More →

By Stacey Yuen Editor’s note: This blog post is based on an interview with Dr. Neva Goodwin conducted in May 2021. In 1989, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Academy of Sciences began sourcing for an American economics textbook for translation and use in the... Read More →

By Pratistha Joshi Rajkarnikar A recent UN news story blames the excessive speculation in the financial markets for impeding basic human rights. The 2022 World Development Report highlights the need to address fragilities within the financial sector for a sustainable recovery... Read More →

By Ellie Hu Climate change has already had an observable and adverse impact on the global environment, with rising sea levels, increased incidence of droughts, storms and wildfires, and declining water supplies and agricultural production. These impacts have fallen heavily on... Read More →

by Anne-Marie Codur and Jonathan Harris The latest stage in global efforts to respond to climate change was the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, held in Glasgow in November 2021. The conference brought together... Read More →

By Ellie Hu The distribution of wealth and resources in the United States has been extremely unequal in recent decades, as the share of national wealth owned by the top 1 percent has increased from less than 25 percent in the late 1970s to around 45 percent more recently. In... Read More →

By Stacey Yuen The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic remains deeply felt in the classroom as a new year has arrived. Beyond the possibility of switching to remote teaching, educators and students alike are contending with questions about whether their curriculum materials... Read More →

By Dr. Brian Roach Twenty years since the initial publication, the Fifth Edition of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: A Contemporary Approach by Jonathan M. Harris and Brian Roach is now available from Routledge. The text provides coverage of core theoretical concepts... Read More →

By Stacey Yuen, with contributions by Dr. Brian Roach Two of the world’s most renowned energy agencies, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) and the International Energy Agency (IEA), have been consistently inaccurate at forecasting the growth of renewable energy. Their... Read More →