CV Julie A. Nelson, Economist
October 2023
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Julie A. Nelson
Professor Emeritus
Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Boston and
Senior Research Fellow
Global Development and Environment Institute
Email: julie.nelson@umb.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/julieanelsoneconomist/home
Blog: https://julieanelson.com/category/economics/
Fields of Interest:
Feminist economics; economics and ethics; feminist social theory; philosophy and methodology of economics; gender and economics; ecological economics; quantitative methods; teaching of economics; economics of the household.
Employment:
Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Boston. August 2019 to present.
Senior Research Fellow, Global Development and Environment Institute, September 2008 to present. Professor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Boston. September 2011 to December 2018. (Department Chair, September 2011 - August 2015.)
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Boston. September 2008 to August 2011.
Senior Research Associate, Global Development and Environment Institute, September 2001 to August 2008.
Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Boston, January to July 2007. Visiting Sowell Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Bates College, August 2003 to December 2003.
Fellow, Center for the Study of Values in Public Life, Harvard Divinity School, September 2000 to June 2001.
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Boston, September 1999 to August 2000.
Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University, July 1995 to August 1999.
Leif Johansen Research Award Programme Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, University of Oslo, Norway, May 1998.
Visiting Associate Professor of Women's Studies, Harvard University, February 1997 to June 1997.
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, Davis, July 1994 to June 1996. Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, Davis, July 1988 to June 1994.
Research Economist, Division of Price and Index Number Research, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington D.C., September 1986 to June 1988.
Research Assistant, Development Research Department, The World Bank, Washington D.C., September 1982 to August 1983.
Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant, Economics Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1981-82, 1983-1985.
Developed educational programs for churches and community groups, Hunger Action Coalition/Minnesota, Minneapolis, September 1978 to August 1980.
Education:
Ph.D., Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1986. M.A., Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1982. B.A., Economics, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1978.
Publications
Books and Edited Volumes
Economics for Humans, 2nd edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. (Revised and expanded.)
Ecology, Sustainability, and Care. Symposium in Feminist Economics 24(3), 2018, pp. 80-183. Co-edited with Marilyn Power, with help from Sigid Stagl. Includes
Ecology, Sustainability, and Care: Developments in the Field, pp. 80-88 (with Marilyn Power).
Gender and Risk-Taking: Economics, Evidence, and Why the Answer Matters. New York: Routledge, 2017.
Macroeconomics in Context. Co-authored with Neva Goodwin and Jonathan Harris. New York: M.E. Sharpe. 1st Edition, 2008. 2nd Edition (with additional authors Brian Roach and Mariano Torras), New York: Routledge, 2014.
Macroeconomics in Context: A European Perspective. Co-authored with Sebastian Dullien, Neva Goodwin, Jonathan M. Harris, Brian Roach, & Mariano Torras. New York: Routledge, 2018.
Microeconomics in Context. Co-authored with Neva Goodwin, Frank Ackerman, and Thomas Weisskopf.
1st Edition: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. 2nd Edition: New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2008. 3rd Edition: Co-authored with Neva Goodwin, Jonathan Harris, Brian Roach and Mariano Torras,
M.E. Sharpe, 2014. 4th Edition: Co-authored with Neva Goodwin, Jonathan Harris, Pratistha Joshi Rajkarnikar, Brian Roach and Mariano Torras, 2018.
Principles of Economics in Context. Co-authored with Neva Goodwin, Jonathan Harris; Brian Roach and Mariano Torras, M. E. Sharpe, 2014.
Introducing Economics: A Critical Guide for Teaching. Co-authored with Mark H. Maier. New York: M.
E. Sharpe, 2007.
Economics for Humans. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Feminist Economics Today: Beyond Economic Man. Co-edited with Marianne A. Ferber. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Chapters include:
Introduction: Beyond Economic Man, Ten Years Later, pp. 1-31 (with Marianne A. Ferber).
Separative and Soluble Firms: Androcentric Bias in Business Ethics, pp. 81-99 (sole author).
Feminist Philosophies of Love and Work. Special issue of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
17(2), Spring 2002. Co-edited with Paula England. Includes
Feminist Philosophies of Love and Work, pp. 1-18 (with Paula England).
Women at the End of the Millennium: What We Know, What We Need to Know. Special issue of The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 39, 1999. Co-edited with Marianne A. Ferber. Includes
Where Do We Go From Here? pp. 781-783 (with Marianne A. Ferber).
Feminism, Objectivity, and Economics. London: Routledge, 1996.
Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics. Co-edited with Marianne A. Ferber. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Chapters include:
Introduction: The Social Construction of Economics and the Social Construction of Gender, pp.
1-22 (with Marianne A. Ferber).
The Study of Choice or the Study of Provisioning? Gender and the Definition of Economics,
pp. 23-36 (sole author).
Journal Articles
The Ethics and Politics of Academic Knowledge Production: Thoughts on the Future of Business Ethics, with Gibson Burrell et al., Journal of Business Ethics 180, 2022, 917-940.
Economics and Community Knowledge-Making, Journal of Economic Methodology, 28(1), 2021, pp. 107- 113. .
Economics for (and by) Humans, Review of Social Economy 80(3), 2022 (January 2020 Presidential Speech, Association for Social Economics at ASSA), pp. 269-282.
The Complicity of Economics. Forum for Social Economics, 47(2), 2018 (Papers & Proceedings issue),
pp. 214–219 .
Gender, Business Ethics, and Corporate Social Responsibility: Assessing and Refocusing a Conversation, with Kate Grosser and Jeremy Moon. Business Ethics Quarterly 27(4), October 2017, pp. 541- 567.
Male is a Gender, Too: A Review of Why Gender Matters in Economics by Mukesh Eswaran. Journal of Economic Literature 54(4), Dec. 2016, pp. 1362-1376.
Not-So-Strong Evidence for Gender Differences in Risk Taking. Feminist Economics 22(2), 2016, pp.
114-142.
Husbandry: A (Feminist) Reclamation of Masculine Responsibility for Care. Cambridge Journal of Economics 40(1), 2016, pp. 1-15.
Are Women Really More Risk-Averse than Men? A Re-Analysis of the Literature Using Expanded Methods. Journal of Economic Surveys 29(3), July 2015, pp. 566-585.
Is Dismissing the Environmental Caution the Manly Thing to Do? Gender and the Economics of Environmental Protection. Ethics & the Environment 20(1), Spring 2015, pp. 99-122.
Fearing Fear: Gender and Economic Discourse. Mind & Society 14(1), 2015, pp. 129-139.
The Power of Stereotyping and Confirmation Bias to Overwhelm Accurate Assessment: The Case of Economics, Gender, and Risk Aversion. Journal of Economic Methodology 21(3), 2014, pp. 211- 231.
'Would Women Leaders Have Prevented the Global Financial Crisis?' Teaching Critical Thinking by Questioning a Question. International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 4(2), June 2013, pp. 192-209.
Ethics and the Economist: What Climate Change Demands of Us. Ecological Economics 85, 2013, pp.
145–154.
Does Profit-Seeking Rule Out Love? Evidence (or Not) from Economics and Law. Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 35, 2011, pp. 69-107.
For Love or Money: Current Issues in the Economics of Care. Journal of Gender Studies (Ochanomizu University) 14, March 2011, pp. 1-19.
Economic Writing on the Pressing Problems of the Day: The Roles of Moral Intuition and Methodological Confusion. La Revue de Philosophie Economique/Review of Economic Philosophy, 11(2), December 2010, pp. 37-68.
Sociology, Economics, and Gender: Can Knowledge of the Past Contribute to a Better Future? The American Journal of Economics and Sociology 69(4), October 2010, pp. 1127-1154.
Getting Past 'Rational Man/Emotional Woman': Comments on Research Programs in Happiness Economics and Interpersonal Relations. International Review of Economics 57(2), June 2010, pp. 233-253.
Between a Rock and a Soft Place: Ecological and Feminist Economics in Policy Debates. Ecological Economics. 69(1), November 2009, pp. 1–8.
The Economics of Nursing: Articulating Care, with Valerie Adams. Feminist Economics 15(4), October 2009, pp. 3–29.
Teaching Ecological and Feminist Economics in the Principles Course, with Neva Goodwin. Forum for Social Economics 38(2-3), July 2009, pp. 173-187.
A Response to Bruni and Sugden, Economics and Philosophy 25(2), July 2009, pp. 187-193.
Ethics, Evidence, and International Debt, Journal of Economic Methodology 16(2), June 2009, pp. 175- 189.
Economists, Value Judgments, and Climate Change: A View from Feminist Economics, Ecological Economics 65(3), April 2008, pp. 441-447.
Can We Talk? Feminist Economists in Dialogue with Social Theorists, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 31(4), Summer 2006, pp. 1052-1074.
Why a Well-Paid Nurse Is a Better Nurse, with Nancy Folbre. Nursing Economics 24(3), May/June 2006,
pp. 127-130.
Rethinking Development and Globalization: Insights from Feminist Economics, The Good Society 14(3), 2005, pp. 58-62.
Freedom, Reason, and More: Feminist Economics and Human Development, Journal of Human Development 5(3), November 2004, pp. 309-333.
Clocks, Creation and Clarity: Insights on Ethics and Economics from a Feminist Perspective, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 7(4), August 2004, pp. 381-398. Issue on Economics, Justice and Welfare, ed. Carl-Henric Grenholm.
A Buddhist and Feminist Analysis of Ethics and Business, Development 47(3), September 2004, pp. 53-60.
Issue on Corporate Responsibility and Development.
Is Economics a Natural Science? Social Research 71(2), Summer 2004, issue on The 50th Anniversary of Robert Heilbroner’s The Worldly Philosophers, ed. William Milberg, pp. 211-222.
Survey Article: Feminism in the Dismal Science with Gabrielle Meagher, Journal of Political Philosophy
12(1), March 2004, pp. 102-126.
Once More, With Feeling: Process/Feminist Economics and the Ontological Question, Feminist Economics 9(1), March 2003, pp. 109-118.
Breaking the Dynamic of Control: A Feminist/Process Approach to Economic Ethics, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 19(1), Spring 2003, pp. 27-45.
Confronting the Science/Value Split: Notes on Feminist Economics, Institutionalism, Pragmatism and Process Thought. Cambridge Journal of Economics 27(1), January 2003, pp. 49-64.
Economic Methodology and Feminist Critiques. Journal of Economic Methodology 8(1), 2001, pp. 93-97. Value as Relationality: Feminist, Pragmatist and Process Thought Meet Economics, Journal of Speculative
Philosophy 15(2), 2001, pp. 137-151. Special Issue on Feminism and Pragmatism, Shannon Sullivan, ed.
For Love or Money--Or Both? with Nancy Folbre. Journal of Economic Perspectives 14(4), Fall 2000, pp.
123-140.
Feminist Economics at the Millennium: A Personal Perspective, in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 25(4), Summer 2000, pp. 1177-1181.
Equivalence Scales and the Welfare of Children. Comment. The Review of Income and Wealth 45(4), December 1999, pp. 531-534 (with Hilde Bojer).
Of Markets and Martyrs: Is it OK to Pay Well for Care? Feminist Economics 5(3), 1999, pp. 43-59. Labour, Gender, and the Economic/Social Divide. International Labour Review 137 (1), 1998, pp. 33-46. One Sphere or Two? American Behavioral Scientist 41(10), August 1998, 1467-1471.
Feminism, Ecology, and the Philosophy of Economics, Ecological Economics 20, 1997, pp. 155-162.
The Frequency of Consumer Expenditure: An Empirical Analysis, Journal of Consumer Affairs 30(2), Winter 1996, pp. 322-347.
Feminism and Economics, Journal of Economic Perspectives 9(2), Spring 1995, pp. 131-148.
On Gendered Economics: Rejoinder, Review of Social Economy 53(1), Spring 1995, pp. 133-139. Estimation of Food Demand Elasticities Using Hicksian Composite Commodities Assumptions, Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics 33(3), Summer 1994, pp. 51-68.
I, Thou, and Them: Capabilities, Altruism, and Norms in the Economics of Marriage, American Economic Review 84(2), May 1994, pp. 126-131.
On Testing for Full Insurance Using Consumer Expenditure Survey Data, Journal of Political Economy
102(2), April 1994, pp. 384-394.
More Thinking About Gender: Reply, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 9(1), Winter 1994, pp.
199-205.
Gender and Economic Ideologies, Review of Social Economy 51(3), Fall 1993, pp. 287-301.
Household Equivalence Scales: Theory versus Policy? Journal of Labor Economics 11(3), July 1993, pp.
471-493.
Value-Free or Valueless? Notes on the Pursuit of Detachment in Economics, History of Political Economy
25(1), Spring 1993, pp. 121-145.
‘Independent of a Base’ Equivalence Scale Estimation Using United States Micro-Level Data, Annales d’Économie et de Statistiques 29, January-March 1993, pp. 43-63.
Methods of Estimating Household Equivalence Scales: An Empirical Investigation, Review of Income and Wealth 38(3), September 1992, pp. 295-310.
Thinking About Gender, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 7(3), Summer 1992, pp. 138-154. Gender, Metaphor, and the Definition of Economics, Economics and Philosophy 8(1), Spring 1992, pp.
103-125.
Tax Reform and Feminist Theory in the United States Context: Incorporating Human Connection, Journal of Economic Studies 18(5/6), 1991, pp. 11-29.
Quality Variation and Quantity Aggregation in Consumer Demand for Food, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 73(4), November 1991, pp. 1204-1212.
Economic Literacy or Economic Ideology? Journal of Economic Perspectives 5(3), Summer 1991, pp.
157-165 (with Steven M. Sheffrin).
Quantity Aggregation in Consumer Demand Analysis When Physical Quantities are Observed, Review of Economics and Statistics 72(1), February 1990, pp. 153-156.
Individual Consumption Within the Household: A Study of Expenditures on Clothing, Journal of Consumer Affairs 23(1), Summer 1989, pp. 21-44.
Household Economies of Scale in Consumption: Theory and Evidence, Econometrica 56(6), November 1988, pp. 1301-1314.
Contributions to Edited Volumes
Economic Theory and Moral Imagination, in Women Philosophers on Economics, Technology, Environment, and Gender History: Shaping the Future, Rethinking the Past, ed. Ruth Edith Hagengruber, De Gruyter, 2023, pp. 23-33.
Economics and the Ethic of Care, with Valentia Rotondi and Paolo Santori, in Rethinking Economics Starting from the Commons, ed. V. Rotondi and P. Santori, Springer, 2023, pp. 31-42.
Gender Biases in Economics, in the The Modern Guide to Philosophy of Economics, ed. Don Ross and Harold Kincaid, Edward Elgar, 2021, pp. 146-156.
Beyond Separative and Soluble Selves, in The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Economics, ed. Günseli Berik and Ebru Kongar, Routledge, 2021, pp. 105-117.
Economics, Considered, in Gender Considered: Feminist Reflections Across the US Social Sciences, ed.
Sarah Fenstermaker and Abigail Stewart. Palgrave, 2020, pp. 219-238.
Climate Change and Economic Self-Interest, in Climate Justice: Integrating Economics and Philosophy,
ed. Ravi Kanbur and Henry Shue. Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. 113-122.
The Koan of the Market, in Co-Designing Economies in Transition, ed. Vincenzo Mario Bruno Giorgino and Zach Walsh. Palgrave MacMillan, 2018, pp. 99-107.
Gender and the Economic Theory of the Firm, in The Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics
(online), ed. Deborah Poff and Alex Michalos, Springer, 2017.
Nature Abhors a Vacuum: Sex, Emotion, Loyalty and the Rise of Illiberal Economics, in Trumponomics: Causes and Consequences, ed. Edward Fullbrook and Jamie Morgan, College Publications, 2017. (Also published in the Real-World Economics Review 79, March 30, 2017).
The Challenge of “Indirect Care,” in Gender and Time Use in a Global Context: The Economics of Employment and Unpaid Labor, ed. Rachel Connelly and Ebru Kongar, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp. 261-269.
Inequity and Unsustainability: The Role of Financialized Masculinity, in Sebastiano Fadda and Pasquale Tridico, eds., Inequality and Uneven Development in the Post-Crisis World, Routledge, 2017, Chapter 5.
Poisoning the Well, or How Economic Theory Damages Moral Imagination, in The Oxford Handbook of Professional Economic Ethics, ed. George DeMartino and Deirdre McCloskey. Oxford University Press. Online publication, March 2014. (Revised) Print publication, 2016, pp. 184-199.
Empowering a Balanced and Useful Economics of Sustainability: The Role of Gender, in Why Women Will Save the Planet, 1st edition, ed. Jenny Hawley, Zed Books, 2015, pp. 68-77. 2nd edition, ed. Friends of the Earth and C40 Cities, Zed Books, 2018, pp. 120-129.
Foreword. Counting on Marilyn Waring: New Advances in Feminist Economics, 2nd Edition, ed. Margunn Bjørnholt and Alisa McKay, Demeter Press, 2014, pp. xi-xii.
Gender and Caring, in Handbook of Research on Gender and Economic Life, ed. Deborah Figart and Tonia
L. Warnecke. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013, pp. 62-76.
Gender, Metaphor, and American Economies, in American Economies, ed. Eva Boesenberg, Reinhard Isensee, and Martin Klepper. Heidelberg: Universitätverlag Winter, Volume 219 of American Studies – A Monograph Series, 2012, pp. 37-56.
Care Ethics and Markets: A View from Feminist Economics, in Applying Care Ethics to Business, ed.
Maureen Sander-Staudt and Maurice Hamington. Dordrecht: Springer, 2011, pp. 35-53. (Revision of GDAE Working Paper No. 10-02.)
The Relational Economy in Ethical Principles and Economic Transformation - A Buddhist Approach, ed. Laszlo Zsolnai, Dordrecht: Springer, 2011, pp. 21-33. (Revision of GDAE Working Paper No. 10- 03.)
Feminist Economics in The Human Economy: A Citizen's Guide, ed. Keith Hart, Jean-Louis Laville and Antonio David Cattani. Cambridge: Polity, 2010, pp. 96-106.
The Principles Course in The Handbook for Pluralist Economics Education, ed. John Reardon. London and NY: Routledge, 2009, pp. 57-68.
Feminist Economics in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition, ed. Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Volume 3, pp. 282-286. (GDAE Working Paper)
Contemporary Schools of Economic Thought, in Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, Volume 1, ed. Michel Weber and Will Desmond. Frankfurt/Lancaster: Ontos Verlag, 2008, pp. 119-126.
The Relational Firm: A Buddhist and Feminist Analysis, in Business within Limits: Deep Ecology and Buddhist Economics, ed. László Zsolnai and Knut Johannessen Ims. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2006, pp. 195-217. (Edited version of GDAE Working Paper No. 04-01.)
Interpersonal Relations and Economics: Comments from a Feminist Economist, in Economics and Social Interaction: Accounting for Interpersonal Relations, ed. Benedetto Gui and Robert Sugden.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 250-261.
A Feminist Critique of Free Market Economics, in Communion, Responsibility, Accountability: Responding as a Lutheran Communion to Neoliberal Globalization, ed. Karen L. Bloomquist. Geneva: Lutheran World Federation (LWF Documentation Series No. 50). December 2004, pp. 67-80.
How did 'The Moral' Get Split from 'The Economic'? in Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics, ed.
Drucilla K. Barker and Edith Kuiper. New York: Routledge, 2003, pp. 134-141.
The Childcare Economics Conundrum: Quality versus Affordability, in Women, Family, and Work: Writings on the Economics of Gender, ed. Karine S. Moe. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2003, pp. 125-141.
Feminism and the Economics of Deception: An Examination of Adam Smith's 'Spirit of System' in Exchange and Deception: A Feminist Perspective, ed. Caroline Gerschlager and Monika Mokre. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002, pp. 43-54.
Feminist Economics: Objective, Activist, and Postmodern? in Post-Modernism, Economics, and Knowledge, ed. Stephen Cullenberg, Jack Amariglio and David F. Ruccio. New York: Routledge, 2001, pp. 286-304.
Gender and Feminist Studies in Economics, in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, ed. Neil J. Smelser and Paul. B. Baltes. Oxford: Pergamon, 2001, pp. 5920-5924.
Gender and the 'Separative Self' in Economics, Ethics, and Management, in Ethics and Capitalism, ed.
John Bishop. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000, pp. 102-121.
Economic Man and Econometrics, in The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics, ed. Janice Peterson and Meg Lewis, Aldershot. UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. 2000, pp. 154-157, 284-289.
Abstraction, Reality, and the Gender of ‘Economic Man,’ in Virtualism: The New Political Economy, ed.
James G. Carrier and Daniel Miller. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1998, pp. 75-94.
Feminism, Objectivity and Economics: On the Role of Gender in Thinking about Economics and Ethics, Studies in Ethics and Economics 3: Ethics, Economics and Feminism, ed. Carl-Henric Grenholm and Gert Helgesson, eds. Department of Theology, Uppsala University, Sweden, 1998, pp. 9-23.
Feminist Economic Methodology, in Handbook of Economic Methodology, ed. John B. Davis, D. Wade Hands, and Uskali Mäki. Aldershot. UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. 1998, 189-192.
Economic Theory and Feminist Theory: Comments on Chapters by Polachek, Ott, and Levin, in Out of the Margin: Feminist Perspectives on Economic Theory, ed. Edith Kuiper et al. London: Routledge, 1995, pp. 120-125.
Ely and Christian Social Reform, in Economists at Wisconsin: 1892-1992, ed. Robert J. Lampman.
Madison: Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin, 1993. pp. 55-58.
Other Publications
Interview, Fireside Chat with Julie Nelson: Reflections on Economics for Humans, International Association for Feminist Economics, online, 2023.
Book Review of An Advanced Introduction to Feminist Economics by Joyce P. Jacobsen. Journal of Economic Methodology 29(2), 2022, pp. 178-180.
Interview, Ecological and Feminist Economics: An Interview with Julie A. Nelson. With Jamie Morgan.
Real-World Economics Review 91, 2020.
Interview, Chapter 8 Julie Nelson, in What is Heterodox Economics? Conversations with Leading Economists, ed. Andrew Mearman, Sebastian Berger, and Danielle Guizzo. Routledge, 2019, pp. 111-129.
Pluralism and Economics: A Retrospective View. American Review of Political Economy 13(1), Papers and Proceedings, 2019.
Interview, Julie Nelson on Feminist Economics, by the Economics: Past, Present, and Future project, online 2018.
Book Review of Buddhist Economics: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science, by Clair Brown.
Feminist Economics 24(3), July 2018, pp. 184-87.
Yes, Economics has a Problem with Women. Blog. October 2017.
Index of Similarity (IS): A Tool for Breaking Down Stereotypes. Blog. September 2017. Is There a “Buddhist Economics”? Blog. April 2017.
Are Corporations Anti-Dharma? Trike Daily, March 10, 2017. With Jeff Seul.
Ethics in Economics: Or, More Precisely, the Lack Thereof. ISRF Bulletin, Issue XI, pp. 21-26. November 2016.
Buddhism and Economic Transformation. Transformation, July 2016.
Beyond 'Small is Beautiful': Buddhism and the Economics of Climate Change. Blog. July 2016. Husbandry: a feminist reclamation of men’s responsibility to care. Transformation, May 2016.
Book Review of What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know by Joan
C. Williams and Rachel Dempsey. Feminist Economics 21(4), 2015, pp. 214-16.
Proposed National Standards for Financial Literacy: What’s In? What’s Out? with Mark H. Maier and Deborah M. Figart. Social Education (78:2), March/April 2014, pp. 77-79.
Really Radical Economics. Transformation, November 2013.
Are Women Really More Risk-Averse than Men? IAWS (Indian Association for Women's Studies)
Newsletter, Vol 11, no 10, January 2013, pp. 9-10.
Broader questions and a bigger toolbox: A problem-centered and student-centered approach to teaching pluralist economics. Real-World Economics Review, issue no. 58, Dec. 2011.
Book Review of Greed, Lust, and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas by Nancy Folbre. Economic History Review 64(1): 348-349. February 2011.
Justice, Gender, and Children, with Nancy Folbre. In Rettferd og Politikk: Festskrift til Hilde Bojer, ed.
Bjørg Ofstad, Olav Bjerkholt, Kari Skrede, Aanund Hylland. Oslo: Emilia, 2009. pp. 65-70.
Rationality and Humanity: A View from Feminist Economics. Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities1(1): October 2009. (On-line journal.)
Podcast: Economic Expressions: A Conversation with the Economist Julie Nelson. In Economica: Women and the Global Economy published by the International Museum of Women, 2009.
Book Review of Critical to Care: The Invisible Women in Health Services by Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong, and Krista Scott-Dixon. Feminist Economics 15(4): October 2009, pp. 173-175
My Tenure War, Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession Newsletter, Spring 2009,
pp. 9-10.
Testing Economics: Does the National Economics Assessment Test High Schoolers on Economic Literacy or Economic Ideology? and Progressive Resources for Teaching Economics with Mark H. Maier. Dollars & Sense, Issue 275, March/April 2008, pp. 24-28.
Antidotes to High School Economics (Mis-)Education on World Hunger, with Mark Maier, Finding Solutions Newsletter 13(1), Winter 2008, pp. 1-2.
GDAE Teaching Modules on Social and Environmental Issues in Economics
(http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/education_materials/modules.html#context)
Economics in Context: Goals, Issues, and Behavior, with Neva Goodwin, Frank Ackerman, and Thomas Weisskopf. 2004. Updated 2008.
Consumption and the Consumer Society, with Neva Goodwin, Frank Ackerman, and Thomas Weisskopf. 2004. Updated 2008.
Macroeconomic Activity in Context, with Neva Goodwin and Jonathan M. Harris., 2004.
Updated 2008.
Useful Macroeconomic Tools and Concepts, with Neva Goodwin and Jonathan M. Harris. 2004.
Updated 2008.
Macroeconomic Measurement: The Current Approach, with Neva Goodwin and Jonathan M. Harris. 2004.
Macroeconomic Measurement: Environmental and Social Dimensions, with Neva Goodwin and Jonathan M. Harris. 2004. Updated 2008.
Book Review of Adam’s Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology by Duncan K. Foley. Journal of Economic Literature 45(4), December 2007, pp. 1026-1028.
Economics, in Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, ed. Fedwa Malti-Douglas. Macmillan Reference, 2007. Economics for Humans: Conscience, Care and Commerce? Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs
50(4), July/August 2007, pp. 17-25.
Feminist Economics and Economic Sociology: Commonalities, Differences, and Challenges Accounts
(ASA Economic Sociology Newsletter) 6(3), Summer 2007, pp. 2-3.
Resources for Teaching Critical Thinking in—and About—Economics, in AGLS News (Newsletter of the Association for General and Liberal Studies) 23(2), Winter 2007, p. 5.
Marianne Abeles Ferber, in Dictionary of American Economists ed. Ross B. Emmett and James Madison, Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2006.
Book review of Economy of Grace, by Kathryn Tanner. Journal of the American Academy of Religion
74(3), 2006, pp. 782-84.
Book Review of Lifting up the Poor: A Dialogue on Religion, Poverty and Welfare Reform, by Mary Jo Bane and Lawrence Mead and Is the Market Moral? A Dialogue on Religion, Economics and Justice, by Rebecca Blank and William McGurn. Feminist Economics 12(3), 2006, pp. 481-83.
Book Review of Buddhist Women and Social Justice: Ideas, Challenges and Achievements, ed. Karma Lekshe Tsomo. International Feminist Journal of Politics 8(2), 2006, pp. 313-15.
Book Review of The Theory of the Individual in Economics: Identity and Value by John B. Davis.
Feminist Economics 11(1), March 2005, pp. 156-159.
A Post-Autistic Introduction to Economic Behavior, Post-Autistic Economics Review 28, October 2004 (with Neva Goodwin, Frank Ackerman and Thomas Weisskopf). http://www.btinternet.com/~pae_news/review/issue28.htm
Comment on ‘Responding to Discrimination in the Academy.’ Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession Newsletter, Spring/Summer 2004, p. 11.
What Should Be Retained from Standard Microeconomics, Post-Autistic Economics Review 14, June 21, 2002, article 8. http://www.btinternet.com/~pae_news/review/issue14.htm.
Book review of The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values by Nancy Folbre, Journal of Economic Literature 40, March 2002, pp. 188-189.
Why the PAE Movement Needs Feminism, Post-Autistic Economics Newsletter 9, October 19, 2001, article 1, http://www.btinternet.com/~pae_news/review/issue9.htm.
Brockton Nurses Strike: Economics and Care Massachusetts Nurses Association News, May 2001. Why Are Early Education and Care Wages So Low? A Critical Guide to Common Explanations,
Foundation for Child Development Working Paper Series, April 2001.
Book review of The New Institutionalism in Sociology, Mary C. Brinton and Victor Nee, eds., The Journal of Consumer Affairs 34(1) Summer 2000, pp. 138-140.
Book review of The Analysis of Household Surveys: A Microeconometric Approach to Development Policy by Angus Deaton, Journal of Economic Literature 38, June 2000, pp. 459-460.
Book review of Women's Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economic Progress of Women in America by Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Christine Stolba, Industrial & Labor Relations Review 53(3), 2000, pp.529-530.
The Actual and the Idealized Market, in the Out of the Margin2/IAFFE Conference 1998 Conference Report, University of Amsterdam. June 1998.
Feminist Economics 201: Philosophy and Methodology. Guest Lecture by Julie Nelson, June 11, 1996 Monograph. Cambridge: Radcliffe Public Policy Institute, 1997.
Book Review of Political Economy for the 21st Century: Contemporary Views on the Trend of Economics, Charles J. Whalen, ed., Journal of Economic Literature 35, March 1997. pp. 121-122.
Economics: Discipline Analysis. Essay and bibliography prepared for the National Center for Curriculum Transformation Resources on Women, Towson State University, Baltimore, 1997.
The Masculine Mindset of Economic Analysis (opinion), The Chronicle of Higher Education 42(42), June 28, 1996, p. B3.
Book Review of Women and Economics: A New Zealand Perspective by Prue Hyman, Feminist Economics 2(1), Spring 1996, pp. 133-136.
Interview: What is Feminist Economics All About? Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs 39(1), January-February 1996, pp. 4-8 (with Jeffrey Madrick).
A Brief History of IAFFE, International Association for Feminist Economics Newsletter 5(1), Summer 1995, pp. 1 and 5 (with April Aerni). (GDAE Working Paper)
Book Review of The Social Meaning of Money by Viviana A. Zelizer, Contemporary Sociology 24(3), May 1995, pp. 382-384.
What Language Are We Using Here? A review of Willie Henderson, Tony Dudley-Evans, and Roger Backhouse’s (editors) Economics & Language, Journal of Economic Methodology 2(1), June 1995, pp. 149-154.
Feminist Ethics and the Income Tax, American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, special issue on Feminist Ethics and Public Policy, ed. Diana Tietjens Meyers and Iris Young. Fall 1994.
What is Feminist Economics? Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession Newsletter, Spring 1994, pp. 6-8 (with Marianne A. Ferber).
Humanizing the ‘Dismal Science’ (opinion). Chicago Tribune, August 4, 1993 (with Marianne A. Ferber). Economics Working Papers: Feminist Theory, Philosophy and Pedagogy, Economics Working Papers:
Women, Families, and Policy, New Publications on Feminism and Economics, and Published Works on Feminism and Economics (bibliographies). Distributed by the International Association for Feminist Economics. Revised March 1994 (with assistance from April Aerni and Jean Shackelford).
Book Review of When the Bough Breaks: The Cost of Neglecting Our Children by Sylvia Ann Hewlett,
Journal of Economic Literature 31, March 1993, pp. 261-262.
Consumer Expenditure Survey, Interview Survey, for Household-Level Analysis, 1980-1989 (reorganized data, with documentation). Distributed by the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research, ICPSR 9851, January 1994.
Gender and Economic Thought, Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession
Newsletter, Fall 1987.
Reprints and Translations:
Gender, Business Ethics, and Corporate Social Responsibility: Assessing and Refocusing a Conversation, with Kate Grosser and Jeremy Moon. Reprinted in Leadership, Gender, and Organization 2nd edition, ed. Mollie Painter and Patricia H. Werhane, Springer, 2023, pp. 103-129. (BEQ article)
人 类 经 济 学 , Modern Publishing House., Ltd., 2021 (Simplified Chinese translation of Economics for Humans, 2nd edition)
Emberarcú közgazdaságtan, Budapest: Pallas Athéné Könyvkiadó Kft., 2019. (Hungarian translation of
Economics for Humans, 2nd edition)
Étudier le Choix ou Étudier L’Approvisionnement Social? Genre et Définition de L’Économie, in Genre et Économie Solidaire, des Croisements Nécessaires, Cahiers Genre et Développement, No. 10, Christine Verschuur, Isabelle Guérin and Isabelle Hillenkamp, eds. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2017. pp. 103-114. (Translation of Beyond Economic Man chapter)
Economist Julie Nelson Says Much of Economics is a Sham Science. Evonomics: The Next Evolution of Economics, Dec. 7, 2016. (Reprint of 2016 ISRF Bulletin article.)
Ethics and Climate Change Policy, in Practicing Professional Ethics in Economics and Public Policy, ed.
Elizabeth A.M. Searing and Donald R. Searing. Springer, 2016, pp. 171-93. (Reprint of
Ecological Economics article, Ethics and the Economist: What Climate Change Demands of Us.)
Hayatimizdaki Economi. Istanbul: Yapi Dredi Yayinlari, 2015. (Turkish translation of Economics for Humans)
Feminism and Economics, in Lourdes Benería, Ann Mari May and Diana Strassmann, ed. Feminist Economics. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2011. (Reprint of JEP article.)
For Love or Money—Or Both? and Gender, Metaphor, and the Definition of Economics in Feminist Economics: Critical Concepts, ed. Drucilla Barker and Edith Kuiper. New York: Routledge, 2009. (Reprint of JEP and Economics and Philosophy articles.)
The Relational Firm: A Buddhist and Feminist Analysis, in Spirituality and Corporate Social Responsibility, ed. David Bubna-Litic. Gower, 2009, pp. 113-130. (Reprint of chapter in Business within Limits, 2006.)
Οικονομικα με ανθρωπινο προσωπο. Athens: Kritiki Publishing, 2009. (Greek translation of Economics for Humans.)
Microeconomia: Organizzazioni Sociali e Conservazione delle Risorse. With Goodwin, Ackerman, and Weisskopf. Bologna: Zanichelli, 2008. (Translation of Microeconomics in Context.)
Feminism and Economics, in The Philosophy of Economics: An Anthology, 3rd edition, ed. Daniel M. Hausman. Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. 454-475. (Reprint of Journal of Economic Perspectives article.)
Ist die Ökonomie Teil der Gesellschaft? Bemerkungen aus feministishcer Sicht, Feministische Studien
25(2), November 2007, pp. 189-201. (Abridged version of Signs article.)
Consumer Society, Development Policies, Distribution of Wealth, Economic Growth, Environmental Dimensions of Macroeconomic Measurement, Free Trade, Global Economy, Macroeconomics, Market, Production Possibility Frontier, Resource Maintenance in Economies, Social Dimensions of Macroeconomic Measurement, with co-authors, in Encyclopedia of Earth, ed. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environment), 2007, http://www.eoearth.org. (On-line excerpts from Global Development and Environment Institute Teaching Modules and Macroeconomics in Context.)
What Should Be Retained from Standard Microeconomics, in Real World Economics: A Post-Autistic Economics Reader, ed. Edward Fullbrook. Anthem Press, 2007. (Reprint of Post-Autistic Economics Newsletter article.)
사랑과 돈의 경제학 , Translation of Economics for Humans into Korean. Korea: Gongjon Publishing, 2007.
Gender, Metaphor, and the Definition of Economics, in Recent Developments in Economic Methodology, ed. John B. Davis. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2006, pp. 3-25. (Reprint of Economics and Philosophy article.)
Is Economics a Natural Science? Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy
2(1), 2005, pp. 261-269. (Revised version of Social Research article.)
Más Allá del Hombre Económico. Spanish translation of Beyond Economic Man. Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra, 2004.
For Love or Money--Or Both? with Nancy Folbre, in Women and the Economy: A Reader, ed. Ellen Mutari and Deborah M. Figart. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2003, pp. 108-123. (Abridged version of Journal of Economic Perspectives article.)
Why the PAE Movement Needs Feminism, in The Crisis in Economics: The Post-Autistic Economics Movement: The First 600 Days, ed. Edward Fullbrook. London: Routledge, 2003, pp.159-161. (Reprint of Post-Autistic Economics Newsletter article.) Translated into Chinese by Higher Education Press and into Turkish by İktisat Fakültesi Mezunları Cemiyeti. Translated into German in Die Scheuklappen der Wirtschaftswissenschaft, ed. Thomas Dürmeier, Tanja v. Egan- Krieger and Helge Peukert (Marburg: Metropolis-Verlag, 2006), pp. 247-250.
Feminismo y Economía, in La Política Economíca desde una Perspectiva de Género, ed. Paloma de Villota. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2000, pp. 29-51. (Translation of Journal of Economic Perspectives article.)
Feminist Economics at the Millennium: A Personal Perspective, in Feminisms at a Millennium, ed.
Carolyn Allen and Judith A. Howard. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000, pp. 177-181. (Reprint of Signs article.)
Labour, Gender, and the Economic/Social Divide, in Women, Gender and Work: What is Equality and How Do We Get There?, ed. Martha Fetherolf Loutfi. Geneva: International Labour Office, 2000. (Reprint of International Labour Review article.)
Travail, sexospécificité et dichotomie entre le social et l’economiqué, Revue Inernationale du Travail 137(1), 1998, 37-52 and Trabajo, sexo y division entre lo económico y lo social, Revista Internacional del Trabajo 117(1),1998, 37-52. (Translation of International Labour Review article.)
Beyond Economic Man, Korean translation. Translated by Ae Sil Kim. Seoul, Korea: Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Press, 1997.
The Study of Choice or the Study of Provisioning? Gender and the Definition of Economics (abridged version), in Economics as a Social Science: Readings in Political Economy, ed. Frank Stilwell and George Argyrous. Annandale, NSW, Australia: Pluto Press, 1996.
Gender, Metaphor, and the Definition of Economics, in Gender and Economics, ed. Jane Humphries. Brookfield, Vermont: Edward Elgar, 1995. pp. 19-41. (Reprint of Economics and Philosophy article.)
Die soziale Konstruktion der Wirtschaftswissenschaften und die soziale Konstruktion von ‘gender,’ in Ökonomische Theorien und Geschlechterverhältnis, ed. Ulla Regenhard, Friederike Maier, and Andrea-Hilla Carl, Berlin: Fachhochschule für Wirtschaft Berlin, 1994, pp. 151-161. (Translation of extract from the Introduction to Beyond Economic Man, with Marianne A. Ferber.)
Limited Distribution:
A Skeptical (and Buddhist) Take on “New Economy” Approaches. Drafted for the session “Buddhist Economics” sponsored by the Association for Social Economics, Atlanta GA, January 2019.
Gender and Failures of Rationality in Economic Analysis. Paper presented at AEA, Atlanta, 2019.
A Caution about Sent and van Staveren's "Feminist Review..." Blog Post, March 2019.
Why Economic Issues are Ethical Issues. August 2011. Drafted for presentation at the conference Rethinking Development: Ethics and Social Inclusion, Mexico City, August 17-18, 2011.
Economics, Climate, and Values: An Integrated Approach. October 2010. With Evelyn Fox Keller. White Paper for the National Science Foundation's Directorate for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences.
How Costly is Climate Change Mitigation? A Methodological Critique of the ACCF/NAM Claims. March 18, 2008.
How Costly Is Climate Change Mitigation? A Methodological Critique of the CRAI Modeling Approach. with F. Ackerman, N. Goodwin, and K. Sheeran, March 11, 2008.
Beyond Small-Is-Beautiful: A Buddhist and Feminist Analysis of Ethics and Business, January 2004.
GDAE Working Paper 04-01.
Household Responsibilities and Travel Time Savings: Does Two Minutes Even Matter?, with Deborah Neimeier (Civil Engineering, UC Davis). First draft August 1997, revised June 1998.
A Feminist Perspective on Economic Justice, first draft, July 1993.
Separability, Scales, and Intra-Family Distribution, UC Davis, Department of Economics Working Paper No. 346, October 1989.
Latent Family Influences on Individual Expenditures for Clothing, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Working Paper No. 192, 1989 (with Brent R. Moulton).
Food Quantity Data in the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey: An Evaluation of Usefulness for Economic and Statistical Studies, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Working Paper No. 174, October 1987.
Quantity Aggregation and Price Variation in U.S. Consumer Demand for Food, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Working Paper No. 168, June 1987.
A Model of Household Joint Utility Maximization with Public Goods. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin, Madison,1986.
Honors and Awards:
Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Scholarship, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2018. ISRF (Independent Social Research Foundation) Essay Prize in Economics, 2015
Thomas F. Divine S.J. Award (for lifetime contributions), Association for Social Economics, 2014 Leif Johansen Research Award, University of Oslo, Norway, 1998.
John W. Kendrick Prize for Best Article, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth.
Second place, 1992.
Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award, Fall 1983. Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Fellowship, 1980-81.
B.A. awarded summa cum laude with Departmental Distinction in Economics. Phi Beta Kappa.
National Merit Scholar.
Courses Taught:
Introduction to Microeconomics Introduction to Macroeconomics Public Economics (Ph.D. and M.A.)
Econometrics (M.A. and undergraduate) Information Management (M.A.)
Statistics (undergraduate)
Quantitative Methods Laboratory (undergraduate) Labor/Human Resources (undergraduate) Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory (undergraduate) Honors Seminar (undergraduate)
Gender and Economics (undergraduate)
Sex-Segregated Labor Markets (undergraduate)
Gender and Inequality (undergraduate, Women's Studies Program) Feminism and Economics (Ph.D.)
Feminist Economics (unit on Work and Family, M.A. and Ph.D., School of Public Affairs)
Major Grants Received:
Institute for New Economic Thinking. Grant for project Expanding Ethical Thinking on the Economics of Climate Change. January-December 2012.
Ecotrust. Grant for project Economics and Climate Ethics. January-June 2011.
The Copperfield Fund. Grant for completion of Macroeconomics in Context. Co-Principal Investigator with Neva Goodwin and Jonathan Harris. 2007.
J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Department of State, and the Council for International Exchange of Scholars. Fulbright Senior Specialists grant in Economics for work at the University of the Republic, Uruguay. July-August 2004. Grant No. 1067.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Memorial Fellowship for Research on Caring Labor. 1999-2000.
Foundation for Child Development. Discretionary grant for research on Economics, Value, and Caring Labor. 2000-2001.
Foundation for Child Development. Discretionary grant for child care meetings. 1999. Project Co- Director with Nancy Folbre and Barbara Bergmann.
Ford Foundation. Sponsored Project, A Traveling Ph.D. Class in Feminist Economics. 1997-1998. Unit director. Planning and pilot grants. Host site: The University of Minnesota Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs.
National Science Foundation. Grant #SES-8921634, Consumer Expenditures in the 1980’s: Preparation and Analysis of Micro-Level Data, February 1990 to January 1992. Sole Principal Investigator.
Professional Activities:
Past President, Association for Social Economics, 2019. President, 2019. President-Elect, 2018. Vice President, 2017.
Section Editor, Journal of Business Ethics, Section on Economics and Business Ethics, May 2016- present.
Associate Editor, Feminist Economics. 1998-2013.
International Advisory Board Member, On Ethics and Economics mongraph series, Rowman & Littlefield International.
Board Member, International Association for Feminist Economics, August 1992 to January 1997.
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Consumer Affairs, 1998-1999, 2001-2002. Feminist Economics, 1995-present. Journal of Economic Methodology, 1994-1997, 2001-2007, 2014-present. Review of Social Economy, 2004-2017. Forum for Social Economics, 2012-present.
Advisory Board Member, Review of Social Economy, 2017-present.
Board of Trustees Member, Journal of Institutional Economics, 2004-2009. Association for Social Economics, 2008-2012.
Member, International Association for Feminist Economics, Association for Social Economics, American Economic Association, E3 (Economists for Equity and the Environment), E3 Climate Economics Taskforce, Gender and Global Climate Change Research Group (G2C2).
Referee for The American Economic Review; Econometrica; Journal of Political Economy; The Journal of Human Resources; The Review of Economics and Statistics; The Journal of Business and Economic Statistics; The Journal of Consumer Affairs; Review of Social Economy; History of Political Economy; Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking; Economic Inquiry; Economics and Philosophy; Journal of Economic Methodology; The Journal of Economic Education; Journal of Policy Analysis and Management; The Review of Income and Wealth; Contemporary Economic Policy; Cambridge Journal of Economics; Feminist Economics; Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy; The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Ecological Economics, Review of Social Economics, Forum for Social Economics, Environmental Values, International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education; Ethical Theory and Moral Practice; Technological Forecasting & Social Change; Journal of Business Ethics; Cambridge University Press; Oxford University Press; University of Chicago Press; Princeton University Press; Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada; The World Bank; Austrian Science Fund (FWF); National Science Foundation; Institute for New Economic Thinking; National Endowment for the Humanities.
Presented papers at meetings of the American Academy of Religion (1999), American Economic Association (1989, 1992, 1994, 2019), American Sociological Association (1997,1999,2008), Association for General and Liberal Studies/Association for Integrative Studies (2005), Association for Social Economics (2010, 2018, 2019), Eastern Economic Association (1987,1999), Econometric Society (1986), European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (2002), International Association for Feminist Economics (1992-1995, 1997-2013, 2016, 2017), International Society for Ecological Economics (2012), International Network for Economic Method (2007, 2009), Society for Business Ethics (2018), Society of Government Economists (1987), Southern Economic Association (1990), United States Society for Ecological Economics (2009, 2013), Western Economic Association (1990).
Selected Invited Presentations:
Behavioral Economics and the Behavior of Economists. Scottish Economic Society Plenary Lecture, Perth, Scotland, April 2018.
Stereotypes or Empirical Results? Cautions Concerning Analysis by Demographic Group. Plenary talk at the 26h Annual Conference of the International Association for Feminist Economics, Seoul, South Korea, June 2017.
Risk-Taking, Finance, and the Environment: The Role of Beliefs about Gender. Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission, Brussels, January 2017.
'Essential Natures'? The Invention of Risk-Averse Women and Bottom-Line Companies. Keynote talk at the Rotman Research Roundtable on Gender + the Economy, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Canada, November 2016.
Gender and Feminist Theory and Economics. Institute for New Economic Thinking’s Young Scholars Initiative plenary, Budapest, Hungary, October 2016.
Critiquing the Foundations of Economics, and Why It Matters. Plenary talk at the Sixth Biennial Conference of the Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice, Glassboro NJ, June 2016.
Beyond 'Small is Beautiful': Buddhism and the Economics of Climate Change. Invited talk at Harvard Divinity School, Religions and the Practice of Peace Initiative, February 2016.
Husbandry and Ecological Economics: A (Feminist) Reclamation of Masculine Responsibility for Care. Plenary talk at the biennial conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics. Leeds, UK, July 2015.
When is Gender Measurable? Insights from the Study of Gender and Risk. Keynote speech at Workshop: Gendering, Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University, Denmark, March 2015.
Getting past biases in economic methodology: Broader questions and a bigger toolbox. Keynote speech at the Rethinking Economics conference, New York City, September 2014.
Thinking Differently About Women and Money. Invited speech at the PowerShift 2014: Women and Finance conference, Said Business School, Oxford University, May 2014.
Economics for Humans (and the World). Plenary speech at conference of the United States Society for Ecological Economics, Burlington, Vermont, June 2013.
Why More Gender Studies are Necessary in Economics. Keynote speech at conference on Institutional Frameworks and Gender Relations sponsored by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) in cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, October 2012.
Working and Caring: Philosophies, Policy, and Outcomes in the United States. Presentation at the International Conference of the Korea Women Economists Association (KWEA), Seoul, May 2012.
Why Economic Issues are Ethical Issues. Presentation at Rethinking Development: Ethics and Social Inclusion, sponsored by UNESCO and the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Education of Mexico, Mexico City, August 2011.
Feminism and Economics. Presentation at the Chinese Women Economists Research Training Program, Peking University, Beijing, China, June 2011.
For Love or Money? Current Issues in the Economics of Care. Keynote speech at the Annual Symposium of the Institute for Gender Studies, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, January 2011.
Gender, Metaphor, and American Economies. Plenary presentation at the annual conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (German American Studies Association), Berlin, May 2010.
Does Profit-Seeking Rule Out Love? Evidence (or Not) from Economics and Law. Speech at Washington University Law conference For Love or Money? St. Louis, March 2010.
Rational Choice Theory: Gender-Based Critiques. Talk given in the series Anno Europeo della lotta alla povertà e all'exclusione sociale, University of Catania, Sicily, March 2010.
Economic for Humans. Launch of Greek translation, Athens, Greece, November 2009.
Between a Rock and a Soft Place: Ecological and Feminist Economics in Policy Debates. Plenary address at the United States Society for Ecological Economics, Washington DC, June 2009.
Getting Past 'Rational Man/Emotional Woman': How Far Have Research Programs in Happiness and Interpersonal Relations Progressed? Plenary address at the conference on Happiness and Relational Goods: Well-Being and Interpersonal Relations in the Economic Sphere, Venice, Italy, June 2009.
Economics for Humans. Talk presented conference on Conscious Capitalism at Bentley University, Waltham, MA, May 2009.
What is Care? (And What Should Economists Do About It?) Workshop on Realism and Economics, Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge U.K., February 2008.
Care Work: Love and Money? Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies, University of Southern Australia, Magill, and the Social & Political Theory Seminar, Australian National University, Canberra, July 2006.
Ethics and International Debt: A View from Feminist Economics. The Problem of Sovereign Debt conference sponsored by New School University and the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, November 2005.
Rationality and Humanity: A View from Feminist Economics. Rational Choice Theory and the Humanities conference, Stanford University, April 2005.
Feminismo y Economía. University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay, August 2004.
Clocks, Creation and Clarity: Insights on Ethics and Economics from a Feminist Perspective. Annual conference of the Societas Ethica, Sigtuna, Sweden, August 2003.
Free Market Economics and Feminist Alternatives. L'accès des femmes à l'économie à l'heure de l'intégration des Amériques: quelle économie? (The Access of Women to the Economy in the Era of North American Integration: Which Economy?) conference, Université de Québec à Montréal and Concordia University, Montréal, Canada, April 2003.
Feminism and Economics. Workshop on Realism and Economics, Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge U.K., November 2001.
Labour, Gender, and the Economic/Social Divide. Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (Social Science Research Center) Berlin, November 2000.
For Love or Money--Or Both? Gender, Justice, and Caring Labor. Provost's Distinguished Women's Lecture Series, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, September 2000.
Feminism and the Economics of Deception: An Examination of Adam Smith's 'Spirit of System.' The 19th Women's Conference at the Vienna University for Economics and Business Administration, Austria, June 2000.
La Teoría Económica a Debate, desde la Perspectiva de Género. Summer course Luces y Sombras en las Políticas de Iqualdad de Oportunidades en la Union Europea, El Escorial, Madrid, Spain, July 1999.
Invited discussant at the Drew University Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences Symposium Materializing Religion: Situating the Science/Religion Interdiscipline, 1999.
The Actual and the Idealized Market. Plenary session of the Out of the Margin2/International Association for Feminist Economics conference, Amsterdam, June 1998.
A Feminist Perspective on Economics. Statistics Norway, Oslo, May 1998.
Feminism, Objectivity and Economics: On the Role of Gender in Thinking about Economics and Ethics. Department of Theology, Uppsala University, at Sigtuna, Sweden, November 1997.
Is Economics Gender Biased? Bank of Montreal Distinguished Visitor program, Trent University, Ontario, Canada, January 1997.
Feminist Economics 201: Philosophy and Methodology. Radcliffe Public Policy Institute, Cambridge MA, June 1996.
The Gender of Economics. The Arne Ryde Symposium on Economics of Gender and the Family, Rungstedgaard, Denmark, August 1995.
Feminist Economics: What Might It Look Like? Plenary session of the Out of the Margin: Feminist Perspectives on Economic Theory conference, Amsterdam, June 1993.
A Feminist Perspective on Economic Justice. Program in Ethics in Society, Stanford University, May 1993.
‘Independent of a Base’ Equivalence Scale Estimation Using United States Micro-Level Data.
Départment et Laboratoire D’Économie Théorique et Appliquée, Paris, October 1991.
Gender and the Definition of Economics. Canadian Economic Association, Kingston, Ontario, June 1991.
Tax Reform and Feminist Theory in the United States Context: Incorporating Human Connection.
Rijksuniversiteit Limburg, The Netherlands, February 1991.
Gender and Economic Theory. Political Economy Club, Harvard University, February 1991. Separability, Scales, and Intra-Family Distribution. Department of Economics, University of
California, Los Angeles, November 1990.
Sex, Gender, and Economic Research. Center for the Study of Institutions and Values, and Women’s Studies Program, Rice University, Houston, December 1989.
Assistance to Organizations:
Economics for the Anthropocene Partnership. Advisory Board, September 2013-present. Massachusetts Care Policy Network. Founding member, November 2007.
Dickinson College. Reviewer of Economics Department, March 2006.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Participant in Consultation on Poverty and Wealth, March 2005.
Schott Foundation. Participant in Gender Equity Scenario Planning Workshop, April 2003.
MacArthur Foundation. Evaluation of grantmaking strategies on early education and child care, 2001.
Planning group on the economics of norms, preferences, values and capabilities, 1994.
Alliance for a Caring Economy, Advisory Board, November 1998-1999.
Institute for Women's Policy Research, Working Group on Social Indicators of Women's Status, 1998- 2002.
Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College. Social Science Selection Committee, 1998.
Office of Child Support Enforcement, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Reviewer of draft report on child support guidelines.1989–1991
Legal Aid Society of Alameda County. Declaration on determination of medically needy income levels. 1990.
Personal Information:
Citizenship: United States.
Foreign Language Proficiency: Spanish.