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Eric Zencey is an American author.
Zencey is contributing editor for the North American Review, and has been a fellow of the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Bogliasco Foundations. Some of his work is available online, as at the History News Network, Stranded Wind, and The European Tribune.
Zencey currently teaches for Empire State College in Prague and New York State. Domestically, he teaches in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program, which offers students an independently designed program after they take a few core courses. The college lists him on an "experts" page.
Since the recession, Zencey's ideas are receiving mainstream attention. On Aug 10, The New York Times published on page A17 an 1,800-word essay entitled "G.D.P. R.I.P.," in which Zencey argues that the G.D.P. is a flawed measure of societal and economic progress and should be abandoned as a primary benchmark. Zencey had a story in April in The New York Times about chemist-turned-economist Frederick Soddy, whose ideas were largely ignored when he was writing in the 1920s and 1930s but are now a foundation of ecological economics. Zencey's Ph.D. dissertation, Entropy as Root Metaphor, published at Claremont Graduate University in 1985, included a chapter calling for the development of a thermodynamically enlightened economics. He recycled some of the material there into some of the essays appearing in Virgin Forest.
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