Nancy Folbre
Director, Program on Gender and Care Work
Professor Emerita of Economics
Senior Fellow of the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College
Nancy Folbre is Professor Emerita of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research explores the interface between political economy and feminist theory, with a particular emphasis on the value of unpaid care work. In addition to numerous articles published in academic journals, she is the editor of For Love and Money: Care Work in the U.S. (Russell Sage, 2012), and the author of Greed, Lust, and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas (Oxford, 2009), Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family (Harvard, 2008), and The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values (New Press, 2001). She has also written widely for a popular audience, including contributions to the New York Times Economix blog, The Nation, and the American Prospect. Her current writing on the political economy of care provision can be seen on her blog, Care Talk.
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Recent Research
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Measuring Care Provision in the United States: Resources, Shortfalls, and Possible Improvements
June 2023
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Fairness Considerations in Global Mitigation Investments
May 2023
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The Crisis of Capitalism, the Noun
May 2023
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Inflation and Paid Care Services in the U.S.
January 2023
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Economics and the Left: Interviews with Progressive Economists
September 2021
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The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems
February 2021
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Cooperation and Conflict in the Patriarchal Labyrinth
February 2020
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Developing Care: Recent Research on the Care Economy and Economic Development
September 2018
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Investment, Consumption, or Public Good? Unpaid Work and Intra-Family Transfers in the Macro-Economy
October 2017
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The Wages of Care: Bargaining Power, Earnings and Inequality
February 2017