Eban Goodstein

Eban Goodstein is Professor of Economics at Lewis and Clark College in Portland Oregon, where he chairs the Environmental Studies Program. Goodstein received his B.A. from Williams College and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.


Professor Goodstein's current research focuses on the economics of global climate change.

Professor Goodstein has been a consultant to the Rockefeller, MacArthur and Pew Foundations, and serves on the editorial board of Environment, Workplace and Employment. Goodstein is the Director of Focus the Nation, a national educational initiative involving over a thousand campuses in simultaneous, one-day symposia on the topic of Global Warming Solutions for
America.

Professor Goodstein is the author of a college textbook, Economics and the Environment, (John Wiley and Sons: 2004) now in its fourth edition, as well as The Trade-off Myth: Fact and Fiction about Jobs and the Environment. (Island Press: 1999) Articles by Goodstein have appeared in The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Land Economics, Ecological Economics, and Environmental Management. His research has been featured in The New York Times, Scientific American, Time, Chemical and Engineering News, The Economist, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among other outlets.

 

Eban Goodstein
School of Law of Lewis & Clark College
Portland, OR
503.768.7626
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