Julie A. Nelson Department of Economics  Wheatley 05-026 University of Massachusetts, Boston 100 Morrissey Boulevard Boston, MA 02125 julie.nelson@umb.edu (617) 287-6925 (phone) (617) 287-6976 (fax) and Global Development and Environment Institute Tufts University Medford, MA 02155 USA julie.nelson@tufts.edu

Julie A. Nelson holds 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 is currently an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a Senior Research Fellow at the Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University. She has 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 at Harvard University (in Women's Studies), a Fellow at the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life at Harvard Divinity School, and the Visiting Sowell Professor of Economics at Bates College. She is author of Economics for Humans (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and Feminism, Objectivity, and Economics (Routledge, 1996), co-editor of Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics (University of Chicago Press, 1993) and Feminist Economics Today: Beyond Economic Man (University of Chicago Press, 2003), and co-author of Microeconomics in Context (M.E. Sharpe, 2008), Macroeconomics in Context (M.E. Sharpe, 2008), and Introducing Economics: A Critical Guide for Teaching (M.E. Sharpe, 2007). Her journal publications include "Household Economies of Scale in Consumption: Theory and Evidence" (Econometrica, 1988), "Household Equivalence Scales: Theory versus Policy?" (Journal of Labor Economics, 1993), "On Testing for Full Insurance Using Consumer Expenditure Survey Data" (Journal of Political Economy, 1994), "Feminism and Economics" (Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1995), "Of Markets and Martyrs: Is it OK to Pay Well for Care?" (Feminist Economics, 1999), "For Love or Money--Or Both?" (with Nancy Folbre, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2000), "Confronting the Science/Value Split: Notes on Feminist Economics, Institutionalism, Pragmatism and Process Thought" (Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2003), "Freedom, Reason, and More: Feminist Economics and Human Development" (Journal of Human Development, 2004), "Can We Talk? Feminist Economists in Dialogue with Social Theorists (Signs, 2006), and “Economists, Value Judgments, and Climate Change: A View from Feminist Economics,” (Ecological Economics, 2008). She has received research support from the National Science Foundation, the Charlotte Perkins Gilman Memorial Fellowship for Research on Caring Labor, and the Foundation for Child Development and travel support from the Fulbright Senior Specialists program. She was a founding board member of the International Association for Feminist Economics, and is currently an Associate Editor of Feminist Economics.

Links:

My Blog

About Economics for Humans

Curriculum Vitae with Links

Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston

International Association for Feminist Economics

Global Development and Environment Institute

IntroducingEconomics.Org: A Resource for High School Economics Teachers

"The Masculine Mindset of Economic Analysis"

My SSRN Page and My RePEc Page

Julie A. Nelson  vs. Brandeis University Fact Sheet and A Relevant Brandeis Letter