Economics of Sustainability courses

During the 1990s, Steven was involved in financial training for staff from all the major UK banks, many international banks and the Bank of England. He developed an awareness of the flaws in orthodox neoclassical economics, leading to a study of post-Keynesian economics with a focus on modern monetary theory. He has published several books on economics.

His research comprises more than 40 refereed publications, two edited volumes and two books, and he hosts the popular Cowboy Economist YouTube channel.

As one of the world’s foremost modern monetary theory economists and an expert in central banking operations, he is widely published and has written or co-authored some of the most important papers written on the topic. His research interests include financial markets, monetary operations, macroeconomic policy and the sustainability of alternative macroeconomic policy regimes.

Philip developed the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) as an alternative global indicator of social wellbeing to Gross Domestic Product. His work and teaching focus on sustainable development, ecological economics and GPI studies. Philip is also a research scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, and a member of the Wakefield Futures Group of Concerned Scientists.

Her research focuses on the political economy of monetary, fiscal policy in a social-ecological transformation, and the intersection of money, society and environment. Colleen co-authored a chapter focusing on money and finance in the book Strategies for Degrowth, and has also worked and published in the field of environmental justice.

She is an experienced economist, with particular skills in economic analysis and research, statistical data analysis and econometric modelling, macroeconomics and survey design.

Dirk is an adjunct lecturer of Economics at Steinbeis School of Management and Innovation, and teaches at Maastricht Summer School. He regularly and widely publishes columns, articles and books on modern monetary theory, macroeconomics, the history of economic thought and the European economy.

Erik’s research focuses on the institutional evolution of the business enterprise, financialisation, and the proliferation of “bullshit jobs”. He is also a research scholar with the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and treasurer of the Association for Institutional Thought.

He worked in banking and accounting at UBS, Deloitte and Barclays before switching his focus to teaching at a tertiary level. David was an academic head at Kaplan Business School Australia.