Julie A Nelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3620807 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julie A Nelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julie A |
| FAMILY NAME | Nelson |
| SIGNATURE | NELSON J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2399-440X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 339 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
A Survival Analysis of Mortality in a Housing First Population in Aotearoa New Zealand
People, Place and Policy is an online journal providing a forum for academic debate around issues of urban policy, social and economic regeneration, housing and the labour market. Articles deal with the situations and experiences of people and places struggling to negotiate the opportunities, constraints and risks within contemporary society
The Ethics and Politics of Academic Knowledge Production: Thoughts on the Future of Business Ethics
To commemorate 40 years since the founding of the Journal of Business Ethics, the editors in chief of the journal have invited the editors to provide commentaries on the future of business ethics. This essay comprises a selection of commentaries aimed at creating dialogue around the theme The Ethics and Politics of Academic Knowledge Production. Questions of who produces knowledge about what, and how that knowledge is produced, are inherent to ed…
Economics for (and by) humans
This essay discusses the nature of, and challenges for, social economics. It begins by exploring how social economics differs from mainstream economics in its goals, definition, and models, and briefly examines the roots of Neoclassical orthodoxy. It then argues that social economists need to take more seriously the human and social nature of our created knowledge. An example from the empirical study of gender and risk preferences illustrates the…
Ecology, Sustainability, and Care: Developments in the Field
Over the past three decades, scholars and activists have been attempting to enrich the field of economics with both feminist and ecological perspectives. This essay reviews some highlights of such efforts, describes the current state of the field (particularly in regard to notions of “care”), and introduces a short symposium
Buddhist Economics: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science
In the 1980s Clair Brown authored a number of works examining women's home and market work, which were often critical of the mainstream economics approaches. In Buddhist Economics, authored decades
The Complicity of Economics
Economics has long promoted an image of agents who profit and consume for their own individual benefit without any kind of responsibility for each other, and who rationally evaluate means but not ends. This contribution explores the relationship between the expanding influence of the homo economicus image and the rise of Donald Trump
Are Women Really More Risk‐averse Than Men? A Re‐analysis of the Literature Using Expanded Methods
While a substantial literature in economics and finance has concluded that ‘women are more risk averse than men’, this conclusion merits investigation. After briefly clarifying the difference between making generalizations about groups, on the one hand, and making valid inferences from samples, on the other, this essay suggests improvements to how economists communicate our research results. Supplementing findings of statistical significance with…
Not-So-Strong Evidence for Gender Differences in Risk Taking
Based on a growing body of experimental and other studies, two recent economics survey articles claim to find “strong evidence” that women are “fundamental[ly]” more risk-averse than men. Yet, much of the literature fails to clearly distinguish between differences that hold at the individual level (categorical differences between men and women) and patterns that appear only at the aggregate level (statistically detectable differences in men's and…
What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know
Gender and caring
'Care' can, in one sense, refer to activities such as childcare or nursing. Such activities further the development of another, usually in a face-to-face and personal way. Care recipients are typically people who could not flourish without it, such as the very young or ill. Another meaning of 'care' is that it is a motivation based on concern for someone or something outside of oneself. There is a general sense that 'care activities' are of highe…
Greed, lust and gender: A history of economic ideas - By Nancy Folbre
Nancy Folbre , Greed, lust and gender: a history of economic ideas ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2009 . Pp. xxxiii + 379 . ISBN 9780199238422 Hbk. £18.99/$34.95 ) The issues Folbre addresses in this book are as old as sexual reproduction, and as new as Time magazine's recent cover story, ‘The new Sheriffs of Wall Street: the women charged with cleaning up the mess’ (24 May 2010). Self-interest and the pursuit of wealth have long been celeb…
Economic Writing on the Pressing Problems of the Day: The Roles of Moral Intuition and Methodological Confusion
On fait souvent appel aux économistes pour aider à adresser les problèmes d’actualité, néanmoins, beaucoup d’économistes semblent être mal à l’aise quand il est question de révéler les jugements de valeur qu’ils apportent à ce travail. Cet essai argumente que deux croyances « traditionnelles » centrales auxquelles les économistes adhèrent implicitement contribuent à ce phénomène. Elles sont, premièrement, que la recherche économique « scientifiqu…
Sociology, Economics, and Gender: Can Knowledge of the Past Contribute to a Better Future
This article explores the profoundly gendered nature of the split between the disciplines of economics and sociology that took place in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, emphasizing implications for current efforts to bring the fields more closely together. Drawing on historical documents and feminist studies of science, it investigates the gendered processes underlying the divergence of the disciplines in definition, method, and degree of …
Between a rock and a soft place: Ecological and feminist economics in policy debates
Critical to Care: The Invisible Women in Health Services
The Economics of Nursing: Articulating Care
Nurses in many industrialized countries are under pressure to prove that the care they provide is cost effective and an appropriate use of scarce healthcare funding. Attempts to describe what nursing care involves, however, have not yet resulted in a generally accepted articulation that is fully up to this task. This essay analyzes how Cartesian dualisms of mind versus body and knowledge versus virtue have contributed to the inadequacy of many cu…
Economists, value judgments, and climate change: A view from feminist economics
Feminism and Economics
Julie A. Nelson (1956–) is currently a Senior Research Associate with the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. She received her Ph. D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her work has included methodological reflections on feminist economics and empirical research concerning families and household consumption. Nelson is currently an Associate Editor of Feminist Economics . Her most recent book is Ec…
Ist die Ökonomie Teil der Gesellschaft? Bemerkungen aus feministischer Sicht
Can We Talk? Feminist Economists in Dialogue with Social Theorists
Rethinking Development and Globalization: Insights from Feminist Economics
Research Article| January 01 2005 Rethinking Development and Globalization: Insights from Feminist Economics Julie A. Nelson Julie A. Nelson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Good Society (2005) 14 (3): 58–62. https://doi.org/10.2307/20711222 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Julie A. Nelson; Rethinking Development and Globalization: Insights from Feminist Economics. The Good Soc…
Survey Article: Feminism in the Dismal Science
Is Economics a Natural Science
Advocates of a more socially responsible discipline of economics often emphasize the purposive and unpredictable nature of human economic behavior, contrasting this to the presumably deterministic behavior of natural forces. This essay argues that such a distinction between "social" and "natural" sciences is in fact counterproductive, especially when issues of ecological sustainability are concerned. What is needed instead is a better notion of s…
Feminist Economics Today: Beyond Economic Man
The 1993 publication of Marianne A. Ferber and Julie A. Nelson's Beyond Economic Man was a landmark in both feminist scholarship and the discipline of economics, and it quickly became a handbook for those seeking to explore the emerging connections between the two. A decade later, this book looks back at the progress of feminist economics and forward to its future, offering both a thorough overview of feminist economic thought and a collection of…
Feminist Philosophies of Love and Work
Can work be done for pay, and still be loving? While many feminists believe that marketization inevitably leads to a degradation of social connections, we suggest that markets are themselves forms of social organization, and that even relationships of unequal power can sometimes include mutual respect. We call for increased attention to specific causes of suffering, such as greed, poverty, and subordination. We conclude with a summary of contribu…
For Love or Money-Or Both
This paper explores the implications for economic analysis, societal well-being, and public policy of the movement of care services (such as child and elder care) from home to market. A broad empirical overview sets the stage for the argument that this process cannot be properly evaluated using only a priori judgments about the suitability of marketization. The context in which markets operate is crucial, and while the growth of market provision …
Of Markets And Martyrs: Is It OK To Pay Well For Care
If caring work were well paid, would it lose some of the special, emotional, interpersonal aspects we want in "real" care relationships? Some fear that the introduction of "market values" would lead to such an outcome. This article seeks to bring to light some logical fallacies and insufficiently expunged gender dualisms that may lie, unexamined, under such concerns. Examining the ways we think and talk about markets, meanings, and motivations, i…
Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics
This is the first book to examine the central tenets of economics from a feminist point of view. In these original essays, the authors suggest that the discipline of economics could be improved by freeing itself from masculine biases. Beyond Economic Man raises questions about the discipline not because economics is too objective but because it is not objective enough. The contributors—nine economists, a sociologist, and a philosopher—discuss the…
Gender, Metaphor, and the Definition of Economics
Let me make it clear from the outset that my main point is not either of the following: one, that there should be more women economists and research on "women's issues" (though I think there should be), or two, that women as a class do, or should do, economics in a manner different from men (a position with which I disagree). My argument is different and has to do with trying to gain an understanding of how a certain way of thinking about gender …
Feminism and Economics
Recent feminist theorizing about gender and science could improve economic practice. The usual definitions of the subject matter, models, methods, and pedagogy of economics, while often perceived as value-free and impartial, contain distinct masculine biases. The alternative is not a 'feminine' economics, not a 'female' economics, but an economics in which practitioners of either sex make use of the widest range of appropriate methods in studying…
Value-Free or Valueless? Notes on the Pursuit of Detachment in Economics
Research Article| March 01 1993 Value-Free or Valueless? Notes on the Pursuit of Detachment in Economics Julie A. Nelson Julie A. Nelson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1993) 25 (1): 121–145. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-25-1-121 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Julie A. Nelson; Value-Free or Valueless? Notes on the Pursui…
Not-So-Strong Evidence for Gender Differences in Risk Taking
Based on a growing body of experimental and other studies, two recent economics survey articles claim to find “strong evidence” that women are “fundamental[ly]” more risk-averse than men. Yet, much of the literature fails to clearly distinguish between differences that hold at the individual level (categorical differences between men and women) and patterns that appear only at the aggregate level (statistically detectable differences in men's and…
The Economics of Nursing: Articulating Care
Nurses in many industrialized countries are under pressure to prove that the care they provide is cost effective and an appropriate use of scarce healthcare funding. Attempts to describe what nursing care involves, however, have not yet resulted in a generally accepted articulation that is fully up to this task. This essay analyzes how Cartesian dualisms of mind versus body and knowledge versus virtue have contributed to the inadequacy of many cu…
On Testing for Full Insurance using Consumer Expenditure Survey Data
Thinking About Gender
I present a way of thinking about gender that I have found helpful in evaluating various proposed feminist projects. By considering gender and value as independent dimensions, relationships of “difference” can be more clearly perceived as involving relationships of lack, of complementarity, or of perversion. I illustrate the use of my gender/value “compass” with applications to questions of self-identity, rationality, and knowledge. This way of t…
Survey Article: Feminism in the Dismal Science
Gender and Economic Ideologies
This article begins with an exposition and critique of ahistorical approach of neoclassical economics (similar approaches have been criticized -- and an historical approach proposed -- in anthropology by Marvin Harris, 1989, and in sociology by Eric Olin Wright, et al., 1992). Then, there a discussion of two approaches, versus critical. By official mean version of Marx taught in former Soviet Union and by most Communist parties for 70 years. By M…
Ecology, Sustainability, and Care: Developments in the Field
Over the past three decades, scholars and activists have been attempting to enrich the field of economics with both feminist and ecological perspectives. This essay reviews some highlights of such efforts, describes the current state of the field (particularly in regard to notions of “care”), and introduces a short symposium
Sociology, Economics, and Gender: Can Knowledge of the Past Contribute to a Better Future
This article explores the profoundly gendered nature of the split between the disciplines of economics and sociology that took place in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, emphasizing implications for current efforts to bring the fields more closely together. Drawing on historical documents and feminist studies of science, it investigates the gendered processes underlying the divergence of the disciplines in definition, method, and degree of …
Buddhist Economics: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science
In the 1980s Clair Brown authored a number of works examining women's home and market work, which were often critical of the mainstream economics approaches. In Buddhist Economics, authored decades
The Complicity of Economics
Economics has long promoted an image of agents who profit and consume for their own individual benefit without any kind of responsibility for each other, and who rationally evaluate means but not ends. This contribution explores the relationship between the expanding influence of the homo economicus image and the rise of Donald Trump
The Social Meaning of Money
Economic Writing on the Pressing Problems of the Day: The Roles of Moral Intuition and Methodological Confusion
On fait souvent appel aux économistes pour aider à adresser les problèmes d’actualité, néanmoins, beaucoup d’économistes semblent être mal à l’aise quand il est question de révéler les jugements de valeur qu’ils apportent à ce travail. Cet essai argumente que deux croyances « traditionnelles » centrales auxquelles les économistes adhèrent implicitement contribuent à ce phénomène. Elles sont, premièrement, que la recherche économique « scientifiqu…
Feminist Philosophies of Love and Work
Can work be done for pay, and still be loving? While many feminists believe that marketization inevitably leads to a degradation of social connections, we suggest that markets are themselves forms of social organization, and that even relationships of unequal power can sometimes include mutual respect. We call for increased attention to specific causes of suffering, such as greed, poverty, and subordination. We conclude with a summary of contribu…
One Sphere or Two
Is money something used by people, or by "the economy," where the economy is conceived of as a supra-human and supra-social realm? If in fact money is created and used by people in all our complicated glory, then markets and money are within the realm of the social. Economists and sociologists are really operating in the same territory
More Thinking About Gender: Reply
Patricia Elliot distorts my work, in summarizing my position as one of advocating a revaluing of feminine qualities. After clarifying my position, I flesh out in greater detail my argument that complete gender neutrality is neither necessary nor sufficient for a non-sexist society. The argument focuses on gender as a cognitive category and on the crucial question of “how do we get there from here.”
Quantity Aggregation in Consumer Demand Analysis when Physical Quantities are Observed
A method for estimating price and income elasticities from cross section data devised by Deaton (1986, 1987, 1988) makes implicit use of the Hicks' composite commodity theorem. Recognition of this fact allows theoretically rigorous definition of aggregate composite quantities. A comparison of elasticities of Hicks' composite with elasticities of simple physical quantity measures for the Ivory Coast and the United States demonstrates that use of p…
Economic Literacy or Economic Ideology
The Test of Economic Literacy (TEL), is a standardized multiple choice test developed under the auspices of the Joint Council on Economic Education with esteemed economists in an advisory role. The Test of Economic Literacy (TEL) is administered in many high school economics courses both to measure economic understanding and to monitor the effectiveness of teaching. We found that some of the questions in the test have a pronounced ideological sla…
Family-based cardiovascular risk reduction education among Mexican and Anglo-Americans
Nader, Philip R. MD; Sallis, James F. PhD; Abramson, Ian S. PhD; Broyles, Shelia L. PhD; Patterson, Thomas L. PhD; Senn, Karen EdD; Rupp, Joan W. MS, RD; Nelson, Julie A. BS Author Information
Thinking About Gender
I present a way of thinking about gender that I have found helpful in evaluating various proposed feminist projects. By considering gender and value as independent dimensions, relationships of “difference” can be more clearly perceived as involving relationships of lack, of complementarity, or of perversion. I illustrate the use of my gender/value “compass” with applications to questions of self-identity, rationality, and knowledge. This way of t…
Gender, Metaphor, and the Definition of Economics
Let me make it clear from the outset that my main point is not either of the following: one, that there should be more women economists and research on "women's issues" (though I think there should be), or two, that women as a class do, or should do, economics in a manner different from men (a position with which I disagree). My argument is different and has to do with trying to gain an understanding of how a certain way of thinking about gender …
Seven-day recall and other physical activity self-reports in children and adolescents
There is need to develop low cost, practical, and accurate measures of physical activity in children and adolescents, and self-report is a promising methodology for children that is applicable for large studies. The purpose of the present study was to assess the reliability and validity of several self-reports of physical activity. Subjects were 36 fifth-, 36 eighth-, and 30 eleventh-grade male and female students. The test-retest reliabilities w…
Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics
This is the first book to examine the central tenets of economics from a feminist point of view. In these original essays, the authors suggest that the discipline of economics could be improved by freeing itself from masculine biases. Beyond Economic Man raises questions about the discipline not because economics is too objective but because it is not objective enough. The contributors—nine economists, a sociologist, and a philosopher—discuss the…
Gender and Economic Ideologies
This article begins with an exposition and critique of ahistorical approach of neoclassical economics (similar approaches have been criticized -- and an historical approach proposed -- in anthropology by Marvin Harris, 1989, and in sociology by Eric Olin Wright, et al., 1992). Then, there a discussion of two approaches, versus critical. By official mean version of Marx taught in former Soviet Union and by most Communist parties for 70 years. By M…
Value-Free or Valueless? Notes on the Pursuit of Detachment in Economics
Research Article| March 01 1993 Value-Free or Valueless? Notes on the Pursuit of Detachment in Economics Julie A. Nelson Julie A. Nelson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1993) 25 (1): 121–145. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-25-1-121 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Julie A. Nelson; Value-Free or Valueless? Notes on the Pursui…
More Thinking About Gender: Reply
Patricia Elliot distorts my work, in summarizing my position as one of advocating a revaluing of feminine qualities. After clarifying my position, I flesh out in greater detail my argument that complete gender neutrality is neither necessary nor sufficient for a non-sexist society. The argument focuses on gender as a cognitive category and on the crucial question of “how do we get there from here.”
On Testing for Full Insurance using Consumer Expenditure Survey Data
The Social Meaning of Money
On Gendered Economics: Rejoinder
This reply further clarifies the differences between the vision of ‘humanistic economics’ as outlined by Mark Lutz and Kenneth Lux, and the feminist economics envisioned by the author. The author's (previous) assertion that Lutz and Lux set up hierarchical dualisms of reason over nature and reason over passion is shown to be supported by passages from the core theoretical section of their book. Feminist insights into the importance of families an…
Feminism and Economics
Recent feminist theorizing about gender and science could improve economic practice. The usual definitions of the subject matter, models, methods, and pedagogy of economics, while often perceived as value-free and impartial, contain distinct masculine biases. The alternative is not a 'feminine' economics, not a 'female' economics, but an economics in which practitioners of either sex make use of the widest range of appropriate methods in studying…
Feminism, ecology and the philosophy of economics
Feminism, Objectivity and Economics
One Sphere or Two
Is money something used by people, or by "the economy," where the economy is conceived of as a supra-human and supra-social realm? If in fact money is created and used by people in all our complicated glory, then markets and money are within the realm of the social. Economists and sociologists are really operating in the same territory
Feminism, Objectivity, and Economics
Of Markets And Martyrs: Is It OK To Pay Well For Care
If caring work were well paid, would it lose some of the special, emotional, interpersonal aspects we want in "real" care relationships? Some fear that the introduction of "market values" would lead to such an outcome. This article seeks to bring to light some logical fallacies and insufficiently expunged gender dualisms that may lie, unexamined, under such concerns. Examining the ways we think and talk about markets, meanings, and motivations, i…
Feminist Economics at the Millennium: A Personal Perspective
For Love or Money-Or Both
This paper explores the implications for economic analysis, societal well-being, and public policy of the movement of care services (such as child and elder care) from home to market. A broad empirical overview sets the stage for the argument that this process cannot be properly evaluated using only a priori judgments about the suitability of marketization. The context in which markets operate is crucial, and while the growth of market provision …
Women's Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economic Progress of Women in America
Are women victims? Or can they hold their own in the workplace? Whilst the popular belief is that women are systematically discriminated against, the authors of this work on women's economic progress in America show that in many areas of education and employment women have achieved equality
Feminist Philosophies of Love and Work
Can work be done for pay, and still be loving? While many feminists believe that marketization inevitably leads to a degradation of social connections, we suggest that markets are themselves forms of social organization, and that even relationships of unequal power can sometimes include mutual respect. We call for increased attention to specific causes of suffering, such as greed, poverty, and subordination. We conclude with a summary of contribu…
Feminist Philosophies of Love and Work
Can work be done for pay, and still be loving? While many feminists believe that marketization inevitably leads to a degradation of social connections, we suggest that markets are themselves forms of social organization, and that even relationships of unequal power can sometimes include mutual respect. We call for increased attention to specific causes of suffering, such as greed, poverty, and subordination. We conclude with a summary of contribu…
Feminist Economics Today: Beyond Economic Man
The 1993 publication of Marianne A. Ferber and Julie A. Nelson's Beyond Economic Man was a landmark in both feminist scholarship and the discipline of economics, and it quickly became a handbook for those seeking to explore the emerging connections between the two. A decade later, this book looks back at the progress of feminist economics and forward to its future, offering both a thorough overview of feminist economic thought and a collection of…
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