BIO

Julie A. Nelson is a Senior Research Associate with the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University, Massachusetts. She received her Ph.D. degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin in 1986. Her previous employment includes serving as an economist at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and as an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California-Davis and at Brandeis University. Nelson is the author of Feminism, Objectivity, and Economics (Routledge, 1996) and Economics for Humans (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming), co-editor of Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics (University of Chicago Press, 1993) and Feminist Economics Today: Beyond Economic Man (University of Chicago Press, 2003), and author of articles in many journals including Econometrica, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Journal of Economic Perspectives. She was a founding member of the International Association for Feminist Economics and is an Associate Editor of the journal Feminist Economics.