Prof. John Gowdy
is Rittenhouse Professor of Humanities and Social Science,
Department of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in
Troy, New York. His current research interests include climate change, biodiversity valuation, behavioral economics, and new directions in microeconomic theory. He has been a Fulbright scholar at the Economic University of Vienna, Leverhulme Professor at Leeds University and a visiting scholar at the Autonomous Universiy Barcelona, the University
of Zurich, the Free University of Amsterdam, the University of Queensland and Tokushima University Japan. He has published more than 150 academic articles and has authored or co-authored 10 books.