Joe is an ecological macroeconomist whose research and teaching is focused on monetary theory and policy in the context of social and ecological justice. His main interests lie in the role of macroeconomic and banking policy on ecological and social issues like housing affordability, income and wealth equity, sustainable agriculture, and resilient social systems. Much of his work revolves around thinking about how a different understanding of money could inform a more just and sustainable approach to policy.
Joe is very interested in public banking, radical tax reform, and fiscal and monetary policy that is aimed at social and environmental issues rather than price stability alone. The study of money is deeply entwined within the sociological, ecofeminist, anthropological, and historical literature. Accordingly, he is also very interested in the fields of embeddedness and dualism, and how humans imagine themselves separate from one another and nature—and importantly, how that imagining informs how we create and use money.
