Environmental Economist Intern

The Just Markets Institute is seeking an Environmental Economist Intern for its Spring 2025 internship program. This remote position involves creating an introductory Environmental Economics course, focusing on topics like externalities and resource management. Candidates should have taken an Environmental Economics course and have teaching experience. The internship is project-based, allowing students to showcase their skills while contributing to educational initiatives aimed at addressing critical global issues.
About Just Markets Institute

The Just Markets Institute is a 501(c)3 educational non-profit founded in 2024 by Alex Thompson to teach economics with a focus on sustainability, equitability, and efficiency. We believe a general economics education has the highest return on investment to help people solve many of the world's most critical collective action problems, such as climate change, disease prevention, poverty, war, hunger, and many more national and local issues such as corruption, homelessness, and crime.
About our 2025 Spring Student Internship Program

Just Markets Institute's internship program is designed to give students an opportunity to show off their abilities in a public manner while helping make the world a better place! JMI Student Internships are entirely project based to match the requirements of your spring internship course. Each intern will be matched with a volunteer mentor who will provide guidance throughout their internship and potentially beyond.
JMI’s Educational Team

The Educational Team is made up of seven interns to cover each of our six categories (Environmental Economics, Industrial Organization, Time Economics, Game Theory, Development Economics, and Economic Anthropology) and an Education Intern to provide assistance. These interns, in partnership with their mentors and JMI staff/members, will create introductory courses for each topic. Each intern will be free to choose an educational medium they believe will best suit their topic.

Environmental Economics Project
• Create an introductory Environmental Economics course through the medium of your choice.
• With a focus on Externalities, Resource Management, Pigovian Tax, Cap and Trade.
• Flexible to meet the requirements of your internship course.

What we're seeking
Must have
• Taken or taking an Environmental Economics course.
• Past experience teaching a topic for a school project.

Nice to have
• A passion for the importance of Environmental Economics.
• Personal project experience outside of school.
• Created educational media for others to consume.

About Just Markets Institute:

Just Markets Institute
About Us

The Just Markets Institute is a 501(c)3 educational non-profit founded in 2024. We believe that a general economics education offers the highest return on investment for addressing many of the world's most critical collective action problems, including climate change, disease prevention, poverty, war, hunger, and various national and local issues such as corruption, homelessness, and crime.

JMI is a member run organization to promote the Just Markets movement for a morally right and fair market system. Our members are everyday people who wish to rebuild a bottom-up economy.
Our Mission

At the Just Markets Institute, we are dedicated to empowering people with the knowledge and tools needed to understand and address complex economic challenges. We will facilitate partnerships between researchers, educators, and nonprofits to create a pipeline of knowledge to help people build a more sustainable, equitable, and efficient economy!
Why Join Us?
• Be part of a pioneering organization at the forefront of public economic education.
• Contribute to solving critical global and local issues through education.
• Work in a start-up environment focused on sustainability, equitability, and efficiency.

Mentor / Internship Program

We match each intern with a volunteer mentor to help guide interns throughout their internship at JMI and beyond. Interns must receive college credit through their academic institutions and we will help facilitate projects that their course requires.

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