31 Facts About Nancy Folbre

Nancy Folbre is an American feminist economist who focuses on economics and the family, non-market work and the economics of care.

Nancy Folbre is professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Nancy Folbre delivered the inaugural Ailsa McKay Lecture in 2016.

Nancy Folbre argues that mainstream economists do not pay enough attention to the economics of care.

Nancy Folbre argues that care work has been historically undervalued because it has been historically provided by women at low or no cost, and goes far to explain why women earn less than men.

Nancy Folbre argues that only by working collectively to ensure a greater supply and quality of care, independent of the market, can we ensure that the responsibility of care is equitably distributed and not disproportionately placed upon women.

Nancy Folbre concludes with the answer that we all have a responsibility to care for others, and provides a vision for the future in which care and care work are given greater priority and support.

Nancy Folbre has written extensively on the social organization of time, namely the time allotted to care for children and the elderly and how family policies and social institutions limit the choices people can make between paid and unpaid work.

Nancy Folbre kept the blog 'Care Talk: coordinating research on care provision' from 2008 to 2009.

In 1989 Nancy Folbre was awarded a National Science Foundation grant to study Women's Work and Women's Households in Western Massachusetts between 1880 and 1910.

Nancy Folbre was awarded a five- year fellowship with the MacArthur Foundation in 1998, and the Leontief Prize of the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University in 2004.

Nancy Folbre was elected president of the International Association for Feminist Economics in 2002, and has been an associate editor of the journal Feminist Economics since 1995.

Nancy Folbre has been a board member of the Foundation for Child Development since 2000, a member of the National Advisory Commission of Child Care and Early Education as well as the National Organization for Women Legal Defense and Education Fund since 2004.

Nancy Folbre suggests that economists should pay less attention to mere accounting of production and more on social reproduction.

Second, Nancy Folbre explores how a shift in the investment of time and resources toward children might result in losses for other groups.

Under the premise that people are rational optimizers, Nancy Folbre argues that if it is costly to be caring, people can be expected to engage in it less over time.

Nancy Folbre applauds the rising autonomy of women but argues that if we don't establish thoughtful rules defining our collective responsibilities for caregiving, the penalties suffered by the needy will increase.

The book is divided into three sections, in which Nancy Folbre explores a wide range of issues, from the view of the housekeeping state to the rights of pregnant workers in Mexico.

Nancy Folbre compares the traditional role of women with the more contemporary career-oriented position of women.

Nancy Folbre argues that radical changes to the way Americans live and work, democratic control of the economy, as well as a dramatic redistribution of wealth will strengthen the ethic of solidarity and social reciprocity.

Nancy Folbre argues that the time investment mothers make offers significant rewards in the reproduction of labor, and because of this, public policy should be designed to align private and public resources in promoting efficient commitments to the next generation.

Nancy Folbre considers ways to improve the accounting of the economic value of raising children and how the current methods of calculating the economic cost of having children fail to capture the value of the time spent in care work.

Nancy Folbre provides a surprising estimate of the value of parental time per child by asking what it would cost to purchase a comparable substitute for it.

Nancy Folbre argues that the mentality espoused by Oliver Stone's character Gordon Gecko that "greed is good," helped lead to the 2008 crash and persists in its wake.

Nancy Folbre argues that this double standard often puts aspiring women in a difficult position, which forces women to choose between their personal identity and the acceptance of the expected gender role.

Nancy Folbre's book describes a process of economic and cultural change in the United States, Great Britain and France that shaped the evolution of patriarchal capitalism and the welfare state.

Nancy Folbre reflects upon specific care work activities that have measurable effects on the reproduction of labor, and discusses ways to integrate the process of care, rather than merely the outcome of care work.

Nancy Folbre asserts that the raising of children imposes costs that are not borne evenly throughout society, and that those who invest little into this public good are "free-riders".

Nancy Folbre discusses and briefly critiques solutions posed by others and concludes with a call for compensation for parents and job training for young adults.

Nancy Folbre recognizes the benefits of the mother bird's increased autonomy, but concludes her article with a call for collective responsibility for caring for others.

Nancy Folbre was selected to deliver the inaugural Ailsa McKay Lecture in 2016.