Joan Hoffman
Joan
Hoffman
Professor Emeritus
Education

B.A.         (Mathematics), Duke University

                 University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

M.A.        (Economics), New School for Social Research,

Ph.D.       (Economics), New School for Social Research

Bio

Professor Joan Hoffman has been teaching at John Jay since 1972. Her fields of interest are sustainable economic development and economic stratification. She has published several articles on New York City’s Catskill Watershed collaboration and is currently writing a book on the topic. She has also published articles on topics such as criminal justice and sustainable development, the theory of economic change and crime, women and economic crime. She teaches Environmental Economics and Global Economic Development and Crime. She has lived in Germany, Mexico, Indonesia and Lebanon and has traveled extensively. These experiences help inform her analysis of economic development. She speaks German, Spanish and some French.

Scholarly Work

BOOKS 

2010

The Cooperation Challenge of The Economics of and Protection of the Water  Supply. New York . Routledge

1975

Racial Discrimination and Economic Development.
Lexington, MA: Lexington Books

BOOK CHAPTERS

2015

Fahrettin Okcabol , Joan Hoffman (2015), Institutional Accountability for True Green, in Cheryl R. Lehman (ed.) Sustainability and Governance (Advances in Public Interest Accounting, Volume 18) Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.123 - 160

2006

“Sustainable Development and Social Entrepreneurship: The NYC Watershed Collaboration , Networks & Social entrepreneurship” in Perrini, F (ed.)The New Social Entrepreneurship: What Awaits Social Entrepreneurial Ventures. London: Edward Elgar

ARTICLES 

2018

The Invisible Political Economy of Algorithms; a Review of Weapons of Math Destruction by Dr. Cathy O'Neill. Working Paper Series: Department of Economics of John Jay College of Criminal Justice. 

2017.

Environmental Justice Along Product Life Cycles: Importance, Renewable Energy Examples, And Policy Complexities. Local Environment. (June) Vol 0 Issue 0.0 Routledge  DOI 10.1080/13549839.2017.1329285

Sustainability and inequality: confronting the debate. International Journal Of Urban Sustainable Development,  https://doi.org/10.1080/19463138.2017.1333004

2008

“Watershed Ethics” in Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Publishing

Watershed Shift: A preliminary indication of the impact of the New York City watershed agreement on  employers of the Catskill/Delaware watershed economy.1997-2003. Ecological Economics  vol. 68, issue 1-2, pages 141-161

2007

Green milieu: the milieu effects on sustainable development of watershed collaborations with a case study of the New York City watershed agreement. Proceedings of the Eco-Sud Conference Wessex Institute of Technology. Ashhurst, South Hampton, U.K.: Wessex Institute of Technology 

2006

Census peek: collaboration in the New York City Catskill/Delaware watershed: case study 1990–2000 . Environment, Development and Sustainability on-line July 4, 2006.

Watershed collaboration conflict in the New York City Catskill/Delaware watershed in Dispute  Resolution Consortium Compendium. New York: Dispute Resolution Consortium

2005

 Economic stratification and environmental  management: a case study of the New York City  Catskill/Delaware watershed.  Environmental Values  14 pp.447-470

2002
Legal responsiveness: a contribution to a structural theory of economic crime. International Journal of  Social Economics. Vol 30 (3) pp. 255-274.

2001.

Sustainable economic development: a criminal justice challenge for the 21st century.” Crime, Law and Social Change. Vol 34 No 3. pp 275-299.

2000.
Roots: indicators of sustainable development for New York City. Social Indicators Research volume 52, issue # 2, pp. 95-134

1998
Economic transformation, disentitlement and women's arrest for street crimes: New York City 1960-96 in  Karmen,A. (ed.) Crime in New York City.

Maintaining the roots of economic development in an era of globalized production. Futures 29 (9) Pp.811-25.1998 * Anbar Award of Excellence (on web site for 5 years)

1997

 Macroeconomic conditions and New York City women’s drug arrest rates: 1960-88. Social Justice 24 (1)P. 82-106.

1991.
Tradition and transformation in Bali, Indonesia in Review of Radical Political Economy 23 (3 & 4).1983
1983

Urban squeeze plays--New York City crises of the 1930s and 1970s, Review of Radical Political  Economics 15(2) p. 29-57.

1981
Business plans for New York, (with M. DeKadt and M. Edel) Social Policy. 12 (1).

1978

with Steve Rose. 1978. Corporate Profits and Accounting from a Radical Perspective. New York: Union or Radical Political Economy.

1975

Macropolitics and the economic crisis in Radical Perspectives on Economic Crisis. New York: URPE, The impact of economic crisis on women and minorities  in Radical Perspectives on Economic Crisis. New               York: URPE,.

 

BOOK REVIEWS

2015: Portney, Kent.E. 2013. Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press on blog of John Jay College of Criminal Justice Sustainability and Environmental Justice webpage.

2014: Macy, Beth. 2014.  Factory man. New York: Little Brown in John Jay College Department of Economics Newsletter

2014:  Fallon, James. 2013, The Psychopath Inside  Penguin Group in John Jay College Department of Economics Newsletter

 

WORKING PAPERS:

November 2015: 05-TPP: Omissions, Weaknesses, and Erosion and the Howevers  . John Jay College of Criminal Justice Department of Economics Working Papers http://www.johnjay.cuny.edu/working-paper-series

Summer 2014:  with Jessica Gordon Nembhard.    01-The Economics of Illusion and Environmental Justice   John Jay College of Criminal Justice Department of Economics Working Papers http://www.johnjay.cuny.edu/working-paper-series

 Fall 2011. 01- New York State’s Negligent Stewardship Calls for Sustainability Study John Jay College of Criminal Justice Department of Economics Working Papers http://www.johnjay.cuny.edu/working-paper-series