Background
Mr. Zencey was born in Delaware, United States, in 1953.
Mr. Zencey was born in Delaware, United States, in 1953.
Eric Zencey graduated from Claremont College, receiving his Doctor of Philosophy in 1986.
Mr. Zencey was a professor of history at Goddard College, Plainfield, VT. He currently teaches at the University of Vermont in the Honors College (HCOL) program, which offers students in the honors college program an opportunity to learn about the pursuit of knowledge. Mr. Zencey also teaches Architecture and Urban planning.
Eric Zencey is contributing editor for 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 European Tribune.
Since the recession, Mr. Zencey's ideas are receiving mainstream attention. On August 10, 2009, 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. Eric Zencey had a story in April 2009 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.
Eric Zencey got married to Kathryn Davis, a writer.