TEDxVillanovaU: Paradigm Shift for Sustainability. Chris discusses how expanding basic economic theory to include the duties and constraints associated with environmental human rights requires rethinking economic analysis, rethinking how economics is taught, and rethinking how economics is learned. Not only does his talk focus on his own efforts to follow this path through his research, but he will highlight how making these changes can improve our understanding of the three pillars of sustainability. Chris Jeffords is an Associate Teaching Professor of Economics at the Villanova School of Business. Jeffords obtained his PhD in 2012 in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Connecticut where he remains a faculty affiliate of the Economic and Social Rights Group at the Human Rights Institute. He currently serves as an Assistant Editor at the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, an Associate Editor at the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, and as the Executive Secretary for the Association for Social Economics. His research has been published in outlets such as Ecological Economics, KYKLOS, Sustainability and Climate Change, Empirical Economics, Global Environmental Politics, Journal of Environment and Development, Review of Social Economy, Human Rights Quarterly, and Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, and in edited book volumes through Edward Elgar Press, Cambridge University Press, and Oxford University Press. Jeffords recently founded and presently directs a monthly series of community-focused, science education conversations in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania called Science on Tap - Phoenixville. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx