Faculty & Staff
Julie A. Nelson, PhD
- Department Chair, Professor of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
- Telephone: 617-287-6925
- Email: julie.nelson@umb.edu
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100 Morrissey Blvd. Office Location: Wheatley Hall,05,00026
Areas of Expertise
Gender and economics; philosophy and methodology of economics; ecological economics; quantitative methods
Degrees
PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Professional Publications & Contributions
- "Economists, Value Judgments, and Climate Change: A View From Feminist Economics," Ecological Economics, 2008.
"Why a Well-Paid Nurse is a Better Nurse," Nursing Economics, 2006 (with Nancy Folbre).
"Is Economics a Natural Science?" Social Research, 2004.
"For Love or Money--Or Both?" with Nancy Folbre. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2000.
"Feminism and Economics," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1995.
Additional Information
Julie Nelson currently conducts research on feminism and economics, with special interests in methodology and in implications for social and environmental policies. 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, a Fellow at the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life at Harvard Divinity School, and as the Visiting Sowell Professor of Economics at Bates College. Nelson is the author or co-author of several books, and of articles in journals ranging from Econometrica and the Journal of Political Economy, to Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and Ecological Economics. She is an Associate Editor of the journal Feminist Economics. Professr Nelson is the author of Economics for Humans (2006) and Feminism, Objectivity, and Economics (1996), and co-author of several other books and textbooks. She has published many journal articles on topics which include the teaching of economics and the empirical analysis of household spending.
