Neva Goodwin

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Neva Goodwin Rockefeller (born June 1, 1944), known professionally as Neva Goodwin, is co-director of the Global Development And Environment Institute (GDAE) at Tufts University, 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, Goodwin 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 organizations such as, most recently, the New Economy Coalition, Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development, Ceres, and the Sustainable Endowments Institute.

Neva Rockefeller Goodwin is the third child of David Rockefeller, grandson of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller. She is a philanthropist and environmentalist and a fourth-generation member (known as "the Cousins") of the prominent Rockefeller family.