Jonathan M. Harris
Jonathan M. Harris
Phone: (617) 627-5470
Fax: (617) 627-2409
Office: Mugar 232A
Address:
The Fletcher School
Tufts University
160 Packard Ave
Medford, MA 02155
Adjunct Associate Professor
Education
BA, Harvard College
MA and PhD in economics, Boston University
Professional Activities
Director of the Theory and Education Program at the Tufts University Global Development and Environment Institute; taught at Tufts University and Boston University; consultant and lecturer at Tufts Environmental Literacy Institute, Tufts/UNEP Fellows Program, and Second Nature: Education for a Sustainable Future.
Programs & Centers
Research Interests
Current research is focused on the implications of large-scale environmental problems, especially global climate change, for macroeconomic theory and policy.
Selected Publications
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: A Contemporary Approach (2nd ed., Houghton Mifflin, 2006), co-author of Environmental and Social Issues in Economics (Encyclopedia of Earth http://www.eoearth.org/, 2006), and co-editor of New Thinking in Macroeconomics: Social, Institutional and Environmental Perspectives (Edward Elgar 2003), and of the Frontier Issues in Economic Thought volumes A Survey of Sustainable Development, A Survey of Ecological Economics and Human Well-Being and Economic Goals (Island Press, 2001; 1995; 1997). He is also editor of Rethinking Sustainability: Power, Knowledge, and Institutions (University of Michigan Press, 2000).