In collaboration with the Community Foundation of Northern Colorado, we developed a new community well-being report, Northern Colorado Intersections: Pursuing Regional Well-Being. This report is the culmination of more than a year of work, including numerous community stakeholder meetings throughout Northern Colorado. Our hope is this report provides something different – a new way to […]
Created a website for The New Hope-Solebury (NHS) Education Fund. The NHS Education Fund is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides grant funding to enhance the quality of education for its students. The NHS Education Fund raises money for innovative grants to fund projects that are not supported by the NHS school district budget. This […]
This book by Jonathan Turner and Anthony Roberts proposes a new theoretical approach for explaining the dynamics of inter-societal systems. The authors argue that inter-societal systems have existed since the beginning of human societies and the dynamics of these systems are a fundamental property of the social universe. However, while world-systems analysis has emphasized this […]
This is the first book that employs economics to develop and apply an analytical framework for assessing progress towards the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The authors explore the historical context for the underlying sustainability concept, develop an economics-based analytical framework for assessing progress towards the SDGs, and discuss the implications for sustainability policy and […]
The world is facing growing environmental risks from global warming, biodiversity loss, water scarcity and degradation of the marine environment. Meeting these challenges calls for a fresh perspective on our economic relationship with the environment. For too long we have undervalued nature – at our peril. Managing an increasingly “fragile” planet requires new thinking on […]
In Souls under Siege, explore how the inhabitants of southern France made sense of the ravages of successive waves of plague, the depredations of mercenary warfare, and the violence of royal succession during the fourteenth century. Many people understood both plague and war as the symptoms of spiritual sicknesses caused by excessive sin, and they […]
Why is natural resource exploitation not yielding greater benefits for the poor economies? In this second edition of his landmark book, Barbier explores this paradox in three parts. Part I gives a historical review of resource use and development, examining current theories that explain the under-performance of today’s resource-abundant economies, and proposing a hypothesis of […]
A major revision of an established textbook on the theory, measurement, and history of economic growth, with new material on climate change, corporate capitalism, and innovation. Authors Duncan Foley, Thomas Michl, and Daniele Tavani present Classical and Keynesian approaches to growth theory, in parallel with Neoclassical ones, and introduce students to advanced tools of intertemporal […]
In today’s fast-paced, fast food world, everyone seems to be eating alone, all the time—whether it’s at their desks or in the car. Even those who find time for a family meal are cut off from the people who grew, harvested, distributed, marketed, and sold the foods on their table. Few ever break bread with […]
Fair trade critiques the historical inequalities inherent in international trade and seeks to promote social justice by creating alternative networks linking marginalized producers typically in the global South with progressive consumers typically in the global North. This unique and wide-ranging Handbook analyses key topics in fair trade, illuminating major theoretical and empirical issues, assessing existing […]
