Neva Goodwin

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Neva Goodwin Rockefeller (born June 1, 1944) is an American businesswoman. She has served as co-director of the Global Development and Environment Institute (GDAE) at Tufts University since 1993, where she is a research associate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and director of the Social Science Library: Frontier Thinking in Sustainable Development and Human Well-Being. Goodwin works towards a contextual economics theory that will have more relevance to contemporary real-world social and ecological concerns than does the dominant economic paradigm. To this end, she is the lead author of two introductory university-level economics textbooks as well as online teaching modules, along with editing two six-part series, among other publications (see below). Goodwin is also involved with efforts to motivate business to recognize social and ecological health as significant, long-term corporate goals. She is involved in socially responsible investing and served in leadership roles at...

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