John Gowdy

John M. Gowdy has been with the Economics Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute since 1982. He holds a B.A. in Anthropology from American University, a Master's degree in Community Planning from the University of Rhode Island, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from West Virginia University. He has been a West Virginia University Foundation Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar at the Wirtschaftsuniversität in Vienna. He has been a visiting scholar at the Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung in Munich, the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, The Central European University in Budapest, The Vrije University in Amsterdam, and Tokushima University in Japan.

His professional interests include the application of input-output analysis to productivity, energy, and regional economics, evolutionary theory in economics, economic anthropology, and ecological economics. He has authored or edited eight books and published over 80 academic articles. His latest book, co-authored with Carl McDaniel, titled "Paradise for Sale: Markets, Myths, and Ecosystem Destruction", will be published next year by the University of California Press. He is currently working on the topics of trade and limitational factors of production, evolutionary theory and environmental policy, and markets and biodiveristy loss in ocean fisheries.

He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Ecological Economics, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Environmental Ethics, Government and Policy: Environment and Planning C, International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology and the International Journal of Global Environmental Issues. He was recently (1997) a guest editor of a special issue of Structural Change and Economic Dynamics on the topic of biology and economics.