Nicholas Reksten Ph.D.

Nicholas Reksten is an associate professor and chair of the Economics Department at University of Redlands. He teaches courses that integrate sustainability and social justice into economic analysis and specializes in research methods and data science. Professor Reksten's research examines the role of social norms in climate policy among households and firms. His current work explores the implications of the worsening ecological crisis for inequality, particularly unpaid household labor, within the framework of feminist ecological economics. Additional research has analyzed sustainability decisions of large firms using interviews and quantitative methods and examined the relationship between capitalism, nationalism, and attitudes toward immigration.

• Ph.D., economics, American University
• B.A., international studies and economics, American University

• Adjunct Instructor, Presidio Graduate School
• Guest Faculty, Sarah Lawrence College
• Short-term consultant, Inter-American Development Bank, Gender, Diversity, and Inclusion team

• Reksten, N., & Wisman, J. D. (2024). Nationalism as a response to worker militancy. American Review of Political Economy, 18(2).
• Reksten, N. (2023). Gender inequality. In B. Haddad & B. D. Solomon (Eds.), The Dictionary of Ecological Economics. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
• Reksten, N., & Floro, M. (2021). Feminist ecological economics: A care-centered approach to sustainability. In R. B. Swain & S. Sweet (Eds.), Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume 1: Challenges and Development (pp. 369–389). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Reksten, N., Garbo, L., & Isenberg, D. (2020). Principles of Economics in a Nutshell. London: Routledge.
• Reksten, N. (2018). Stakeholders and voluntary climate reduction goals at large U.S. firms: An institutional analysis. The Social Science Journal, 55, 221–231.
• Reksten, N., Roncolato, L., and Grown, C. (2017). Engendering growth diagnostics: Examining constraints to private investment and entrepreneurship. Development Policy Review, 35(2), 263–287.