John Gowdy

About

John M. Gowdy was a Professor of Economics and Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. He is the recipient of the Herman Daly Award for contributions to ecological economics.
“Throughout my career I have been interested in the relationship between economic systems, social institutions and the natural world. My current research, in collaboration with evolutionary biologists, focuses on the evolution of economic systems. I feel fortunate to be an economist in this period of rapid change in the field. After several decades of intellectual stagnation economics is opening up to new ideas from the behavioral sciences, biology, and systems theory. This awakening holds the promise to make economics once again relevant to the daunting challenges confronting our species.” 
Gowdy is the author of over 170 published articles and 10 books. His most recent book is Microeconomic Theory Old and New: A Students Guide. Other recent published work includes the book Economic Theory Old and New: A Students Guide, Paradise for Sale: A Parable of Nature, with Carl McDaniel, "Global Warming Economics in the Long Run" in Land Economics, "A Group Selection Perspective on Economic Behavior, Institutions and Organizations" in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and "Behavioral Economics and Climate Change Policy" in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 
Gowdy has served as president of the U.S. Society for Ecological Economics and President of the International Society for Ecological Economics. He is the recipient of the Herman Daly Award for contributions to ecological economics. He has been a Fulbright scholar at the Economic University of Vienna, Leverhulme Professor at Leeds University and a visiting scholar at the Autonomous University Barcelona, the University of Zurich, the Free University of Amsterdam, the University of Queensland and Tokushima University Japan.
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Research

Other Focus Areas

climate change behavioral and evolutionary economics

Publications

The following is a selection of recent publications in Scopus. John Gowdy has 131 indexed publications in the subjects of Environmental Science, Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Energy.

John M. Gowdy
Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi
, 55
, 2021
, pp.35-54
.
Peter G. Brown, John Gowdy
Sustainable Wellbeing Futures: A Research and Action Agenda for Ecological Economics
, 2020
, pp.90-101
.
Joshua Farley, John Gowdy, Stephen Marshall
Sustainable Wellbeing Futures: A Research and Action Agenda for Ecological Economics
, 2020
, pp.210-228
.
John Gowdy, Philippe Baveye
Agroecosystem Diversity: Reconciling Contemporary Agriculture and Environmental Quality
, 2018
, pp.425-433
.
Maria Loureiro, Andrea Ghermandi, Bella Galil, John Gowdy, Paulo A.L.D. Nunes
Handbook on the Economics and Management of Sustainable Oceans
, 2017
, pp.263-277
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Yannick Beaudoin, Alberto Pacheco Capella, Julie Richardson, Remi Mongruel, Megan Seneque, Jim Marsden, John Gowdy
Handbook on the Economics and Management of Sustainable Oceans
, 2017
, pp.72-92
.
Philippe C. Baveye, Jacques Baveye, John Gowdy
Frontiers in Environmental Science
, 4
, 2016
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John Gowdy
Beyond Uneconomic Growth: Economics, Equity and the Ecological Predicament
, 2016
, pp.106-132
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John Gowdy, Lisi Krall
The Behavioral and brain sciences
, 39
, 2016
, pp.e119
.
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