New GDAE Working Paper
A Financial Crisis Manual: Causes, Consequences, and Lessons of the Financial Crisis
By Ben Beachy
This
new working paper provides a comprehensive account of the financial crisis of 2007-2009 and its continuing impacts. What provoked the largest financial and economic collapse in decades? How did the financial crisis morph into an economy-wide recession, and what can be done to prevent its recurrence? The module includes analysis of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, as well as other initiatives to control Wall Street’s excesses and benefit the real economy. It also underscores the need to reform economic and financial theory to incorporate the crisis's lessons on rational versus irrational markets, private versus public interests, and market-based versus governmental regulation.
Updated Textbook Chapters
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: A Contemporary Approach
By Jonathan Harris
This text introduces students to the expanding field of ecological economics. It balances coverage of standard environmental topics with a global perspective on current ecological issues such as population growth, global climate change, "green" national income accounting, and the relationship between trade and the environment.
This textbook is available for free download.
The third edition of this text (M.E. Sharpe, forthcoming) is in production and will be released in June 2013.
In the meantime,
see our website for
Updated Versions of:
Chapter 8: National Income and Environmental Accounting
Chapter 10: Population and the Environment
Chapter 13: Energy – The Great Transition
Chapter 17: Greening the Economy
Chapter 18: The Economics of Global Climate Change
Additional support materials are available for
instructors and
students.
INSTRUCTORS:
Contact us to request access to updated instructor resources and teaching materials for this textbook, including Power Point slides with
data updates for 2011 and 2012.
New Thinking in Feminist Economics
GDAE Senior Research Fellow Julie A Nelson, a leading theorist of feminist economics, has published numerous works concerning feminist theory, ethical economics, climate change, ecological perspectives, and macroeconomics. Her recent working papers challenge widespread perceptions about gender roles, and suggest rethinking our image of the structure and purpose of economic systems.
Read Dr. Nelson's recent publications:
Are Women Really More Risk-Averse than Men?
Is Dismissing the Precautionary Principle the Manly Thing to Do?
Would Women Leaders Have Prevented the Global Financial Crisis? (revised 2012)
Principles Textbooks
Microeconomics in Context
Neva Goodwin, Julie Nelson, Frank Ackerman, and Thomas Weisskopf
This textbook provides a thorough introduction to the principles of microeconomics, but it also delves deeper, offering a fresh portrait of the economic realities of the 21st century.
Click here to learn more.
Macroeconomics in Context
Neva Goodwin, Jonathan Harris, and Julie Nelson
This textbook is a companion to Microeconomics in Context, extending the contextual economics approach to macroeconomics. The text focuses on policies that achieve macroeconomic stabilization while promoting long-term sustainability and human well-being.
Click here to learn more.
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