Julie A. Nelson

Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

Senior Research Fellow, Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, USA

Julie A. Nelson's research areas include feminist economics, ecological economics, the philosophy and methodology of economics, ethics and economics, the teaching of economics, and the empirical study of individual and household behavior. Nelson earned a B.A. degree in Economics from St. Olaf College (1978) and M.A. (1982) and Ph.D. (1986) degrees in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. She served as a Research Economist at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, an Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California-Davis, an Associate Professor of Economics at Brandeis University, a Visiting Associate Professor of Women's Studies at Harvard University, and as a Fellow at the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life at Harvard Divinity School. She retired from the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2019. Nelson is the author of Economics for Humans and author, co-author, or co-editor of several other books including Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics, and author of articles in journals ranging from Econometrica, the American Economic Review, and the Journal of Political Economy, to Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Feminist Economics, and Ecological Economics. She is a former Associate Editor of Feminist Economics, former editor of the Economics and Business Ethics section of the Journal of Business Ethics, and former President of the Association for Social Economics.