Clair Brown

Clair Brown is Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley. Clair has published research on many aspects of inequality and sustainability. Her book Buddhist Economics: An enlightened approach to the dismal science (Bloomsbury Press) provides an economic framework that integrates global sustainability, shared prosperity and care for the human spirit. Clair is a volunteer with 350 Bay Area Action to work on passing key climate justice bills in California. Clair’s student research team developed a Sustainable Share-prosperity Policy Index that evaluates 50 countries’ economic performance in caring for people and the planet.  Read about Clair in Eminent Economists II: Their Life and Work Philosophies (Cambridge).See http://buddhisteconomics.net/