Julie A. Nelson

Nelson graduated from St. Olaf College with a B.A. in economics in 1978.{{cite web |title=Julie A. Nelson CV |url=https://www.umb.edu/editor_uploads/images/cla_d_o/Nelson_CV_June_2018_with_links.pdf#page=2 |website=www.umb.edu |access-date=24 April 2019 |archive-date=16 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191216225711/https://www.umb.edu/editor_uploads/images/cla_d_o/Nelson_CV_June_2018_with_links.pdf#page=2 |url-status=dead }} Nelson earned a M.A. in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1982.{{cite web |title=Julie A. Nelson CV |url=https://www.umb.edu/editor_uploads/images/cla_d_o/Nelson_CV_June_2018_with_links.pdf#page=2 |website=www.umb.edu |access-date=24 April 2019 |archive-date=16 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191216225711/https://www.umb.edu/editor_uploads/images/cla_d_o/Nelson_CV_June_2018_with_links.pdf#page=2 |url-status=dead }} In 1986, Nelson also received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.{{cite web |title=Julie A. Nelson CV |url=https://www.umb.edu/editor_uploads/images/cla_d_o/Nelson_CV_June_2018_with_links.pdf#page=2 |website=www.umb.edu |access-date=24 April 2019 |archive-date=16 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191216225711/https://www.umb.edu/editor_uploads/images/cla_d_o/Nelson_CV_June_2018_with_links.pdf#page=2 |url-status=dead }}

Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics, a 1993 book Nelson co-edited with Marianne A. Ferber, has been called a 'landmark' Coughlin, Ellen K. 1993. Feminist Economists vs. ‘Economic Man’: Questioning a Field’s Bedrock Concepts, The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 30, A8. and the 'manifesto' of feminist economics.Steinberger, Michael. 1998. The Second Sex and the Dismal Science: The Rise of Feminist Economics, Lingua Franca, November, p. 57. A follow-up volume, Feminist Economics Today, summarizes the development of the field over the following ten years Jacobsen, Joyce P. Review of Feminist Economics Today. Journal of Economic Literature, XLIII, March 2005, pp. 138-140. Nelson is author, co-author, or editor of numerous academic articles and books on both feminist theory and the empirical study of behavior, as well as a co-author of the "in Context" series of economics textbooks.

Her 2006 book (2nd edition, 2018) Economics for Humans dismisses the view that markets are inexorable "machines" and discusses how a better understanding of the relation of economics and values could improve both business and care work.Allemang, John. Review of Economics for Humans, The Globe and Mail, October 9, 2006. She argues that the current approach to studying the economy as though it were an asocial machine, using only tools that emphasize 'detachment, mathematical reasoning, formality and abstraction', is narrow and damaging.Economyths, by David Orrell, page 140 She suggests that the metaphor of a "beating heart" would better frame discussions about the economy in terms of values.Nelson, Julie. "Economic Jargon," podcast interview for Economica: Women and the Global Economy, October 2009. Other recent work addresses issues of ethics and economics,Nelson, Julie. "Economics for (and by) Humans," Review of Social Economy, published online, 2020. and particularly in relation to climate change,Nelson, Julie. "Ethics and the Economist: What Climate Change Demands of Us," Ecological Economics, 85, 2013, pp. 145-154. and how stereotypes about women have distorted recent behavioral economics research.Nelson, Julie. "Not-So-Strong Evidence for Gender Differences in Risk-Taking," Feminist Economics, 22(2), 2016, pp. 114-142."Are Women Really More Risk-Averse than Men? A Re-Analysis of the Literature Using Expanded Methods," Journal of Economic Surveys 29(3), 2015, pp. 566-585.

Nelson was a founding member of the International Association for Feminist Economics, an associate editor of the journal Feminist Economics, the 2019 President of the Association for Social Economics, and is the Economics Section editor of the Journal of Business Ethics. Nelson started her career at the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, subsequently became a tenured associate professor at the University of California, Davis, and then moved to the Boston, Massachusetts area, where she was professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a senior research fellow with the Global Development and Environment Institute.{{cite web | title = Julie A. Nelson CV | url = https://sites.google.com/site/julieanelsoneconomist/cv-julie-a-nelson | access-date = 19 August 2022}}

• {{cite book | last1 = Nelson | first1 = Julie A. | last2 = Ferber | first2 = Marianne | author-link2 = Marianne Ferber | title = Beyond economic man: feminist theory and economics | publisher = University of Chicago Press | location = Chicago | year = 1993 | isbn = 9780226242019 }}
• {{cite book | last = Nelson | first = Julie A. | title = Feminism, objectivity and economics | publisher = Routledge | location = London New York | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780203435915 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Nelson | first1 = Julie A. | last2 = Ferber | first2 = Marianne | author-link2 = Marianne Ferber| title = Feminist economics today: beyond economic man | publisher = University of Chicago Press | location = Chicago | year = 2003 | isbn = 9780226242071 }}

::Reviewed by {{Cite journal | last = Robeyns | first = Ingrid | author-link = Ingrid Robeyns | title = Feminist economics today, edited by Marianne A. Ferber and Julie A. Nelson | journal = Journal of Economic Methodology | volume = 12 | issue = 4 | pages = 613–617 | doi = 10.1080/13501780500365592 | date = 2005 | s2cid = 216138345 }}

• {{cite book | last = Nelson | first = Julie A. | title = Economics for humans | url = https://archive.org/details/economicsforhuma0000nels |publisher = University of Chicago Press | location = Chicago | year = 2006 | isbn = 9780226572024 }}
• {{cite book | last = Nelson | first = Julie A. | title = Economics for humans, 2nd Ed. | url = https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo28638720.html | publisher = University of Chicago Press | location = Chicago | year = 2018 | isbn = 9780226463803 }}
• {{cite book | last = Nelson | first = Julie A. | title = Gender and Risk-Taking: Economics, Evidence, and Why the Answer Matters | url = https://www.routledge.com/Gender-and-Risk-Taking-Economics-Evidence-and-Why-the-Answer-Matters/Nelson/p/book/9781138284036 | publisher = Routledge | location = New York | year = 2018 | isbn = 9781138284036 }}

• {{citation | last = Nelson | first = Julie A. | contribution = Forward | editor1-last=Bjørnholt|editor1-first =Margunn|editor1-link=Margunn Bjørnholt|editor2-last=McKay|editor2-first =Ailsa|editor2-link=Ailsa McKay|title=Counting on Marilyn Waring: New Advances in Feminist Economics|year=2014|publisher=Demeter Press/Brunswick Books|isbn=9781927335277}}
• {{citation | last = Nelson | first = Julie A. | contribution = Climate change and economic self-interest | editor1-last=Kanbur|editor1-first =Ravi|editor1-link=Ravi Kanbur|editor2-last=Shue|editor2-first =Henry|editor2-link=Henry Shue| title = Climate Justice: Integrating Economics and Philosophy | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford | year = 2019 | isbn = 9780198813248}}

• {{Cite journal | last = Nelson | first = Julie A. | title = Household economies of scale in consumption: theory and evidence | journal = Econometrica | volume = 56 | issue = 6 | pages = 1301–1314 | doi=10.2307/1913099 | date = November 1988 | jstor = 1913099 | url = https://zenodo.org/record/1235085 }}
• {{Cite journal | last = Nelson | first = Julie A. | title = Gender, metaphor, and the definition of economics | journal = Economics and Philosophy | volume = 8 | issue = 1 | pages = 103–125 | doi = 10.1017/S026626710000050X | date = April 1992 | s2cid = 146493891 }}
• {{Cite journal | last = Nelson | first = Julie A. | title = Methods of estimating household equivalence scales: an empirical investigation | journal = Review of Income and Wealth | volume = 38 | issue = 3 | pages = 295–310 | doi = 10.1111/j.1475-4991.1992.tb00427.x | date = September 1992 }} [https://web.archive.org/web/20150924091838/http://www.roiw.org/1992/295.pdf Pdf.]
• {{Cite journal | last = Nelson | first = Julie A. | title = Feminism and economics | journal = Journal of Economic Perspectives | volume = 9 | issue = 2 | pages = 131–148 | doi = 10.1257/jep.9.2.131 | date = Spring 1995 | url = http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jep.9.2.131 }}
• {{Cite journal | last = Nelson | first = Julie A. | title = What is feminist economics all about? | journal = Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs | volume = 39 | issue = 1 | pages = 4–8 | date = January–February 1996 | jstor = 40721660 }}
• {{Cite journal | last = Nelson | first = Julie A. | title = Can we talk? Feminist economists in dialogue with social theorists | journal = Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society | volume = 31 | issue = 4 | pages = 1051–1074 | date = Summer 2006 | jstor = 10.1086/500599 | doi=10.1086/500599| s2cid = 36171639 | url = https://works.bepress.com/julie_nelson1/5/download/ }}
• {{Cite journal | last = Nelson | first = Julie A. | title = Husbandry: a (feminist) reclamation of masculine responsibility for care | journal = Cambridge Journal of Economics | volume = 40 | issue = 1 |pages = 1–15 | doi = 10.1093/cje/bev060 | date = January 2016 | url = http://repec.umb.edu/RePEc/files/2015_01.pdf }}
• {{Cite journal | last = Nelson | first = Julie A. | title = The power of stereotyping and confirmation bias to overwhelm accurate assessment: The case of economics, gender, and risk aversion. | journal = Journal of Economic Methodology | volume = 21 | issue = 3 |pages = 211–231 | doi = 10.1080/1350178X.2014.939691 | date = 2014 | s2cid = 145424855 | url = https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1350178X.2014.939691#.U-QQ8lbeNQY }}

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