Books written by Goodwin include Economics and National Security: A History of Their Interaction; Missing the Boat: The Failure to Internationalize American Higher Education; Academic Mobility in a Changing World: Regional and Global Trends, which he edited with Alan Smith, Ulrich Teichler.
and Peggy Blumenthal); Beyond Government: Extending the Public Policy Debate in Emerging Democracies, edited with Michael Nacht); Talking to Themselves: The Search for Rights and Responsibilities of the Press and Mass Media in Four Latin American Nations (with Michael Nacht); The Academic's Handbook, 2nd Ed.
[6][7] [8] He was co-editor with R. D. Collison Black and A. W. Coats of "The Marginal Revolution in Economics" published in Durham by the Duke University Press.
In North Carolina he and his wife Nancy Sanders, the daughter of a Duke English professor,[10] owned a showplace home and garden.
The talks were delivered as part of the inaugural event for the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University.