Items by By NANCY FOLBRE
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Economix Blog: Nancy Folbre: Investing in Julia
Posted: May 21st, 2012, 6:00am EDT by By NANCY FOLBRE
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Living in and taking part in society requires acceptance of some responsibilities for others, an economist writes.
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Economix Blog: Nancy Folbre: Valuing Family Work
Posted: April 23rd, 2012, 6:00am EDT by By NANCY FOLBRE
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Insisting that parents who provide a great deal of care for family members also have an outside-the-home job to qualify for government assistance is a burden, an economist writes.
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Economix Blog: Nancy Folbre: Saluting Teamwork
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 6:00am EST by By NANCY FOLBRE
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Military leaders want their troops to be committed to one another and their mission rather than going after individual rewards -- and maybe there's a lesson in that for the rest of us, an economist writes.
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Economix Blog: Nancy Folbre: Traffic Jam Economics
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 6:00am EST by By NANCY FOLBRE
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Plans to improve more roads or to bring more taxis into service generally make traffic worse, an economist writes.
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Economix Blog: Nancy Folbre: The Best States to Grow Up In
Posted: January 23rd, 2012, 6:00am EST by By NANCY FOLBRE
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Racial and ethnic differences often undercut public support for programs that support the well-being of children, an economist writes.
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Economix Blog: Nancy Folbre: The Best States to Grow Up In
Posted: January 23rd, 2012, 6:00am EST by By NANCY FOLBRE
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Racial and ethnic differences often undercut public support for programs that support the well-being of children, an economist writes.
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Economix Blog: Nancy Folbre: Utopian Capitalism
Posted: December 26th, 2011, 6:00am EST by By NANCY FOLBRE
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It's time to contemplate new economic systems to remove the destructive incentives embodied in our modern capitalism, an economist writes.
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Economix Blog: Nancy Folbre: Feminism's Uneven Success
Posted: December 19th, 2011, 6:00am EST by By NANCY FOLBRE
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For all the progress women have made in the United States, paid family leave, child care and other social benefits lag behind those of many other countries, an economist writes.
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Economix Blog: Nancy Folbre: The Recession in Pink and Blue
Posted: October 24th, 2011, 6:00am EDT by By NANCY FOLBRE
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Whether the growing economic insecurity of women will affect how they vote remains to be seen, an economist writes.
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Economix Blog: Nancy Folbre: The Green Jobs Numbers
Posted: September 12th, 2011, 6:00am EDT by By NANCY FOLBRE
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Green jobs may be hard to measure precisely, but they are surely growing and would benefit greatly from a bipartisan acknowledgement of that, an economist writes.
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Economix: How the Budget War Was Framed
Posted: July 18th, 2011, 6:00am EDT by By NANCY FOLBRE
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Why hasn't more attention been paid to progressive proposals to balance the federal budget, an economist asks.
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Economix: Unemployment? Who Cares?
Posted: July 11th, 2011, 7:02am EDT by By NANCY FOLBRE
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To their shame, policy makers have neglected the nation's most important economic problem -- creating jobs -- an economist writes.
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Economix: Shared Capitalism
Posted: May 30th, 2011, 6:00am EDT by By NANCY FOLBRE
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Strengthening company incentives for profit-sharing would help both owners and workers, an economist writes.
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Economix: A New York City ‘Living Wage’
Posted: May 23rd, 2011, 6:00am EDT by By NANCY FOLBRE
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An economist explores the debate over a proposal for a minimum wage of $10 an hour on all large projects that receive public subsidies.
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Economix: Super Sad True Jobs Story
Posted: May 2nd, 2011, 6:00am EDT by By NANCY FOLBRE
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The economic recovery in the United States has not revived the job market -- and may not, an economist writes.
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Economix: The Economics of Big Love
Posted: January 24th, 2011, 7:35am EST by By NANCY FOLBRE
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Polygamy carries a social stigma, for good reason, an economist writes, but some in her field are finding it a rich vein of research.
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Economix: Borderless Economy, Jobless Prosperity
Posted: January 17th, 2011, 7:53am EST by By NANCY FOLBRE
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The needs of American workers and consumers and those of corporate investors no longer align, and the gap is intensified by globalization, an economist writes.
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Economix: The Unemployed Online
Posted: January 10th, 2011, 8:49am EST by By NANCY FOLBRE
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Whether the unemployed can use social networking as an effective organizing tool remains to be seen, an economist writes.
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Economix: The Declining Demand for Men
Posted: December 13th, 2010, 9:56am EST by By NANCY FOLBRE
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Conventional views of gender roles hamper men in a tough job market, an economist writes.
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Economix: Discerning Sex Discrimination
Posted: December 6th, 2010, 6:00am EST by By NANCY FOLBRE
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Why not give all workers the information they need to determine if they are paid fairly or discriminated against, an economist asks.
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Economix: Deficit Hawks, Tax Chickens
Posted: November 22nd, 2010, 7:33am EST by By NANCY FOLBRE
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Missing from the recent proposals and how to cut the budget deficit through spending cuts and tax increases is any analysis of which people are most affected by what, an economist writes.
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Economix: Whitman’s Economic Plan
Posted: October 18th, 2010, 6:00am EDT by By NANCY FOLBRE
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The economic policy proposals offered by Meg Whitman, the G.O.P. candidate for governor in California, do not stand up to scrutiny, an economist writes.
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Economix: The Spousal Safety Net
Posted: October 12th, 2010, 11:10am EDT by By NANCY FOLBRE
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As husbands lost their jobs during the recent recession, wives increased their hours of paid employment significantly, an economist writes, helping stabilize some families' finances.
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What Would Keynes Say Today?
Posted: October 4th, 2010, 10:02am EDT by By NANCY FOLBRE
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Keynes would no doubt be saddened that China is adopting his views more than some of the democratic capitalist countries, an economist writes.
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How Many Jobs Do We Need?
Posted: September 13th, 2010, 7:36am EDT by By NANCY FOLBRE
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Economic upturn is no way to describe the current state of affairs, an economist writes, because unemployment remains so high.
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Why Girly Jobs Don't Pay Well
Posted: August 16th, 2010, 7:38am EDT by By NANCY FOLBRE
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The underlying economics of caring do not reward women, an economist writes.
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Grow Green Jobs
Posted: July 12th, 2010, 6:00am EDT by By NANCY FOLBRE
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Spending to create green jobs would lower the unemployment rates and increase energy efficiency, and might just create some lasting legacies, an economist writes.
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Cougar Capitalism
Posted: July 5th, 2010, 6:00am EDT by By NANCY FOLBRE
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One economist's take on what the financial and political success of Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman says about feminism and capitalism.
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The Disservice Economy
Posted: May 31st, 2010, 8:12am EDT by By NANCY FOLBRE
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Companies have little incentive to provide excellent customer service for problems that occur only rarely, an economist writes.
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Back to the Garden
Posted: May 24th, 2010, 7:19am EDT by By NANCY FOLBRE
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Can greater self-reliance undermine the business-as-usual economy? An economist considers the possibilities.
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Do Nice Gals Finish Last?
Posted: April 26th, 2010, 8:52am EDT by By NANCY FOLBRE
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Research suggests that women are less Machiavellian, more agreeable and more altruistic than men, with negative consequences for their earnings, an economist writes.
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Investigating Inequality
Posted: April 19th, 2010, 8:43am EDT by By NANCY FOLBRE
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The data needed to measure income distribution accurately is lacking, an economist writes.