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Contributors Sabine Bietz is a PhD candidate at the Department of Consumer Behaviour and Consumer Policy at the University of Calw, Germany. Her main research interests are consumer behaviour and sustainable development. Jerry Courvisanos is Associate Professor of Innovation and Entre- preneurship at the Centre for Regional Innovation and Competitiveness in the School of Business, University of Ballarat, Australia. He has published many articles on the environment and on Post Keynesian invest- ment theory, including Investment Cycles in Capitalist Economies (Edward Elgar, 1996). Peter E. Earl is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author or editor of 17 books, including Money Matters: A Keynesian Approach to Monetary Economics, with Sheila Dow (Martin Robertson, 1982), The Economic Imagination: Toward a Behavioural Analysis of Choice (Wheatsheaf Books, 1983) and Information, Opportunism and Economic Coordination (Edward Elgar, 2002). From 2001 to 2004 he was co-editor of the Journal of Economic Psychology. Mario Giampietro is a Research Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology for the Environment – Universitat Autonoma Barcelona, Spain. He has been a visiting scholar at Cornell University, Wageningen University, the European Commission Joint Research Center at Ispra, University of Wisconsin Madison, Penn State University, and Arizona State University. He has published more than 150 papers and is the author of Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Agro-ecosystems (CRC Press, 2003), and co-author of The Jevons Paradox and the Myth of Resource Effi ciency Improvements (Earthscan, 2008). John Gowdy is Rittenhouse Teaching Professor of Humanities and Social Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, and President-Elect of the International Society of Ecological Economics. He is the author of several books including Sustainability and Firms (Edward Elgar, 1998), Paradise for Sale, co-authored with Carl McDaniel (University of California Press, 2000) and Frontiers in Ecological Economic Theory and Application, with Jon Erikson (Edward Elgar, 2007). ix Richard P.F. Holt, Steven Pressman and Clive L. Spash - 9781849802086 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 09/28/2021 10:37:09PM via free access x Contributors Richard P.F. Holt is Professor of Economics at Southern Oregon University. He has authored and edited a number of books and journal articles including the prize-winning The Changing Face of Economics: Conversations with Cutting Edge Economists, with David C. Colander and J. Barkley Rosser, Jr (University of Michigan Press, 2004). He has pub- lished with Steven Pressman A New Guide to Post Keynesian Economics (Routledge, 2001), and Empirical Post Keynesian Economics (M.E. Sharpe, 2006). They are working on a third volume that will fi nish their trilogy on Post Keynesian economics, Post Keynesian Economics and Public Policy. James Juniper is a Lecturer in Economics and an Associate of the Centre for Full Employment and Equity at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His research interests include systems theory, quantitative fi nance, Continental philosophy, Post Keynesian macroeconomics and regional development. James Kahn is the John F. Hendon Professor of Economics and Director of the Environmental Studies Program at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. He is also director of a US–Brazil consortium under the auspices of the Brazilian Ministry of Education and the US Department of Education. He is the author of Economic Approach to Environment and Natural Resources (3rd edition, South-Western, 2004) and editor, with Anna Alberini, of Handbook on Contingent Valuation (Edward Elgar, 2006). Marc Lavoie is Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He has been a Visiting Professor at the universities of Bordeaux, Nice, Rennes, Dijon, Grenoble, Limoges, Lille, Paris-Nord and Paris-1, as well as Curtin University in Perth, Australia. He has written a number of books, including Foundations of Post-Keynesian Economic Analysis (Edward Elgar, 1993), Introduction to Post-Keynesian Economics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), and Monetary Economics: An Integrated Approach to Money, Income, Production and Wealth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) with Wynne Godley. Kozo Mayumi is a Professor at the University of Tokushima, Japan. He is the author of The Origins of Ecological Economics: The Bioeconomics of Georgescu-Roegen (Routledge, 2001) and The Jevons Paradox and the Myth of Resource Effi ciency Improvements, with Blake Alcott, Mario Giampietro and John Polimeni (Earthscan, 2008). Andrew Mearman is Senior Lecturer in Economics at Bristol Business School, University of the West of England. He has published on economic methodology in journals such as Oxford Economic Papers, the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Review of Social Economy. Richard P.F. Holt, Steven Pressman and Clive L. Spash - 9781849802086 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 09/28/2021 10:37:09PM via free access Contributors xi Richard B. Norgaard is a member of the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley. In 2006 he received the Kenneth E. Boulding Award, which honours individuals making major contributions to inter- disciplinary issues. He is co-author or co-editor of several books, and has published over 200 articles in environmental and ecological economics, environmental sociology, environmental epistemology and other fi elds. He is the author of Development Betrayed: The End of Progress and a Coevolutionary Revision of the Future (Routledge, 1994). Steven Pressman is Professor of Economics and Finance at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, NJ. He also serves as co-editor of the Review of Political Economy, and as associate editor and book review editor of the Eastern Economic Journal. He has published more than 120 articles in refereed journals and as book chapters, and has authored or edited 15 books, including Alternative Theories of the State (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) and 50 Major Economists, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2006). Jesus Ramos-Martin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Economics and Researcher at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He has been lecturer at FLACSO (Ecuador), organizes the biannual Iberoamerican Congress on Development and Environment, and is a member of the edi- torial board of the Iberoamerican Journal of Ecological Economics. Lucia Reisch is Professor for Intercultural Consumer Behaviour and Consumer Policy at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. She is editor of Ethical-Ecological Investment: Towards Global Sustainable Development (IKO, 2001) and co-editor of The Ecological Economics of Consumption (Edward Elgar, 2005). Alexandre Rivas is Full Professor (Professor Titular) in the Departamento de Economia e Análise at the Universidade Federal do Amazonas in Brazil. He is also a Collaborating Professor at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, and a member of the advisory board to a joint project of the University of the United Nations and the Banco do Brasil. He is the director of a US–Brazil consortium under the auspices of the Brazilian Ministry of Education and the US Department of Education. J. Barkley Rosser, Jr is Professor of Economics and Kirby L. Cramer, Jr Professor of Business Administration at James Madison University, in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He is also editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Among his more than 100 publications are From Catastrophe to Chaos: A General Theory of Economic Discontinuities, Richard P.F. Holt, Steven Pressman and Clive L. Spash - 9781849802086 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 09/28/2021 10:37:09PM via free access xii Contributors 2nd edition (Springer, 2000), Comparative Economics in a Transforming World Economy 2nd edition, with Marina V. Rosser (MIT Press, 2004) and an edited volume, Complexity in Economics (Edward Elgar, 2004). Heinz Schandl is leading research on resource use dynamics and sustaina- bility transitions at the Commonwealth Scientifi c and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) at Canberra, Australia. He has published on resource use dynamics in historical UK and contemporary Southeast Asia and Latin America as well as on global resource use patterns and the role of systems innovation for sustainability transitions. Robert H. Scott, III is Assistant Professor of Economics and Finance at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, NJ. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Missouri, Kansas City. His main research interests are credit cards, fi nancial literacy and ecological economics. Clive L. Spash is an Economics Professor and Science Leader within the Sustainable Ecosystems Division of the Commonwealth Scientifi c and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Canberra, Australia. He is editor-in-chief of Environmental Values, and former co-editor of Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy. His more than 100 publications include Greenhouse Economics: Value and Ethics (Routledge, 2002), and Alternatives for Environmental Valuation (Routledge, 2005), co-edited with Michael Getzner and Sigrid Stagl. From 1996 to 2006, he served as Vice-President and then two terms as President of the European Society for Ecological Economics. Arild Vatn is Thor Heyerdahl Professor at the Department of International Environment and Development at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB). He was awarded the UMB Research Prize in 2002, and the