Julie A. 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. Professor 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.
Articles
Ethics and the Economist: What Climate Change Demands of Us, Ecological Economics (2013)
Climate change is changing not only our physical world, but also our intellectual, social, and...
For Love or Money: Current Issues in the Economics of Care, Journal of Gender Studies (2011)
The first part of this essay explores developments in this “care economy” in the United...
Does Profit-Seeking Rule Out Love? Evidence (or Not) from Economics and Law, Washington University Journal of Law & Policy (2011)
Many believe that firms are driven to maximize profits, and therefore are not allowed to...
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 (2010)
Economists are often called on to help address pressing problems of the day, yet many...
Sociology, Economics, and Gender: Can Knowledge of the Past Contribute to a Better Future?, The American Journal of Economics and Sociology (2010)
This essay explores the profoundly gendered nature of the split between the disciplines of economics...
Books
Macroeconomics in Context (with Neva Goodwin and Jonathan Harris) (2008)
Education in macroeconomics should include critical issues such as macroeconomic stabilization, distributional equity, the quality...
Microeconomics in Context (with Neva Goodwin, Frank Ackerman, and Tom Weisskopf) (2008)
Designed for one-semester use, this innovative, principles-level text takes a broad "contextual" approach to economics—including...
Introducing Economics: A Critical Guide for Teaching (with Mark H. Maier) (2007)
This guide for high school teachers is designed to help instructors counter the narrowness (and,...
Economics for Humans (2006)
Is it asking too much to demand that businesses be socially and environmentally responsible? When...