[3] To this end, Goodwin is the lead author of two introductory university-level economics textbooks as well as online teaching modules,[4] along with editing two six-part series among other publications (see below).
Goodwin is also involved with efforts to motivate business to recognize social and ecological health as significant, long-term corporate goals.
Her work ranges across climate change, labor relations, and feminist economics (where she helped develop the notion of the Core sphere of production).
[27] She has lectured widely, including at the Club of Rome and The Smithsonian Institution Grand Challenges Consortia;[28] MIT;[29] Thirtieth Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures; New School for Social Research; University of Utah; the Kennedy School of Government; the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; the Cambridge Forum; Environmental Grantmakers Association; the University of Moscow; the University of Cambridge; the EPA; the Russian Society for Ecological Economics; the American Economic Association; Socially Responsible Investing (SRI in the Rockies); the American Association of Legal Scholars; the U.S. Society for Ecological Economics (keynote address); the Eastern Economics Association; the Atlantic International Economic Society; the International Society for Quality of Life Studies (keynote address); the Boston Theological Institute in conjunction with The American Association for the Advancement of Science; the UN Development Program; the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics; and the World Institute for International Development, Helsinki.
Containing a bibliography of more than 9,000 titles, including full text PDFs of about a third of these, this material will be sent on USB drives or CDs to all university libraries in 137 developing countries.
[31] Goodwin has previously worked with the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET); Ceres (Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economy; on their board of directors); College of the Atlantic; Bar Harbor, Maine (as the vice-chair of the board); the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (as a trustee, and then vice-chair of the board); the Human Development and Capability Association (as a founding fellow); the International Society for Ecological Economics; Washington, D.C., President's Council on Sustainable Development; Task Force on Population & Consumption; U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration; the Committee for the Political Economy of the Good Society (PEGS; as a founding board member); the World Bank; the International Center for Research on Women, Washington, D.C. (as a trustee, and committee chair); Technology + Economics consulting firm; the New Community Development Corporation, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD); and the Boston Society of Architects.
[7][32] Goodwin was also active in organizing her family to attempt to reason with the present and former CEOs of ExxonMobil regarding climate change, directly and through shareholder resolutions.
[7] Her senior thesis, "The Deciphered Heart: A Study of Conrad Aiken's Poetry and Prose Fiction,"[46] was published in full in the 75th Anniversary Year edition of the Sewanee Review the following summer, under the pen-name Jennifer Aldrich.