2010 Presenters
Juliet Schor
Juliet B. Schor’s research focuses on the economics of work, spending, environment, and the consumer culture. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, Born to Buy, The Overworked America, The Overspent American, and Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth, which Publishers Weekly has called “fresh, persuasive, and passionately argued.” A graduate of Wesleyan University with a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Massachusetts, Schor “has been the most perceptive and prescient writer on economics this country has had for the last two decades,” according to Bill McKibben.
She is currently a professor of sociology at Boston College, a former member of the Harvard economics department, and a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient.
She also holds a chair in the Economics of Leisure Studies at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, and her scholarly articles have appeared in the Economic Journal, The Review of Economics and Statistics, World Development, Industrial Relations, The Journal of Economic Psychology and other journals. She has served as a consultant to the United Nations, at the World Institute for Development Economics Research, and to the United Nations Development Program.
She is the co-founder of the Center for a New American Dream, an organization devoted to ecologically and socially sustainable lifestyles.
LINKS:
Schor's faculty profile at Boston College
Video: Schor discusses Plenitude
