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081: Julie Nelson on the Importance of Ecology in Economics and the Misconception of Gender Roles in the Economy

081: Julie Nelson on the Importance of Ecology in Economics and the Misconception of Gender Roles in the Economy

FromEconomic Rockstar


081: Julie Nelson on the Importance of Ecology in Economics and the Misconception of Gender Roles in the Economy

FromEconomic Rockstar

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Length:
48 minutes
Released:
Apr 14, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

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Julie Nelson is Professor of Economics at University of Massachusetts Boston and Senior Research Fellow at Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, also in the USA.
Julie’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.
Julie 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.
Professor Nelson earned a B.A. degree in Economics from St. Olaf College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.
Julie, along with Mark Maier, runs the website introducingeconomics.org
Check out the show notes page at www.economicrockstar.com/julienelson for all the links and resources mentioned in this episode.
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Released:
Apr 14, 2016
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