Clifford Cobb

Clifford Cobb is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a master’s degree in public policy. He is author of Responsive Schools, Renewed Communities: A Communitarian Proposal for Systemic Education Reform; co-author of The Green National Product: An Alternative Measure of the National Economy, co-editor of The Path to Justice: Essays on the Philosophy and Economics of Henry George, contributor to For the Common Good, and author of several articles on social indicators and environmental taxes. In 1999, he was invited to write a background paper for a planning session in Denmark on social indicators in preparation for the United Nations Summit on Social Development. In 1994, he helped establish Redefining Progress, a social policy think-tank in San Francisco, and he remains a senior fellow, doing research projects on common property resources and tax policy. In 1995, he served as a member of an advisory committee for President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development. In 2026 Cliff is hoping to retire a second and final time from editing the American Journal of Economics and Sociology. At that point, he hopes to devote more time to exploring how process thought can be applied to topics in social and economic theory that are currently in philosophical limbo.