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John Gowdy
Professor of Economics and Rittenhouse Chair

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Degrees: Ph.D., West Virginia University

M.A., West Virginia University
M.C.P., University of Rhode Island
B.A., American University

Research: Ecological economics including economic valuation of biodiversity and environmental theory and policy, economic anthropology including the sustainability of complex societies, input-output analysis of energy and resource use, evolutionary models of economic change, biophysical models of sustainability.

Selected Publications:
Paradise For Sale: A Parable of Nature, University of California Press,
January 2000 (with Carl McDaniel).

"The Revolution in Welfare Economics and its Implications for Environmental
Valuation" Land Economics, 80(2), 2004, 239-257.

"Toward a New Welfare Foundation for Sustainability" Ecological Economics
53, 2005, 211-222.

"The Approach of Ecological Economics" Cambridge Journal of Economics ,
29(2), 2005, 207-222 (with Jon Erickson).

"Fairness and Retaliation in a Rural Nigerian Village," The Journal of
Economic Behavior and Organization 52(4), 2003, 469-479, (with Steve
Onyeiwu and Raluca Iorgulescu).

Contact info:
Office number: Sage 3406
Phone number:(518) 276-8094
Fax number:(518) 276-2235
Email Address:gowdyj@rpi.edu
Last updated: 2008/09/08
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