Julie A. Nelson is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and a senior research fellow at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. Dr. Nelson’s research areas include feminist economics, ecological economics, the philosophy and methodology of economics, ethics and economics, and the teaching of economics. She is author of Economics for Humans (2nd ed., 2018), Feminism, Objectivity, and Economics (1996), and other books; coauthor of of the economics “in Context” introductory textbook series (with Goodwin et al.), and coeditor of Beyond Economic Man (1993) and Feminist Economics Today (2003). She is also the author of many articles in journals including Econometrica, American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Ecological Economics, Economics and Philosophy, History of Political Economy, and Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy. Dr. Nelson received her Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1986. She was a founding board member of the International Association for Feminist Economics, is the Economics section editor at the Journal of Business Ethics.
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