Julie A. Nelson
Auteur de Economics for Humans
A propos de l'auteur
Julie A. Nelson is professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a senior research fellow at the Global Development and Environment Institute of Tufts University. She is the author of many articles and books, and a leader in the fields of feminist, social, and ecological afficher plus economics. afficher moins
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Œuvres de Julie A. Nelson
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Nelson, Julie Ann
- Date de naissance
- 1956
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Pays (pour la carte)
- USA
- Études
- University Wisconsin, Madison
- Professions
- Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Sr. research fellow, Global Development & Environment Institute, Tufts University
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Read in 2014 (1)
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 4
- Membres
- 68
- Popularité
- #253,411
- Évaluation
- 3.4
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 13
Nelson is arguing for a kinder, gentler capitalism, one that acknowledges that the economy is made up of *people* and assigns value accordingly. She does a good job of breaking down the ways the classical economic model fails, but I'm not so sure she's as good at making suggestions for how to improve what exists - she makes a good case for why progressives can still be (and possibly should be) capitalists, but she doesn't address the ways this could go horribly wrong in our current antagonistic two-party deathmatch of a political environment.… (plus d'informations)