New Book: The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems
By Nancy Folbre. From Verso: In this groundbreaking new work, Nancy Folbre builds on a critique and reformulation of Ma
Nancy Folbre’s Feminist, Unorthodox Economics
In Nancy Folbre’s wide-ranging career, she has fruitfully melded many traditions and shed light on areas usual
Why current definitions of family income are misleading, and why this matters for measures of inequality
By Nancy Folbre, Researchers studying income distribution in the United States seem reluctant to acknowledge the fam
Nancy Folbre & Kristin Smith on The Wages of Care: Bargaining Power, Earnings & Inequality
by Nancy Folbre & Kristin Smith From the abstract: The uneven bargaining power of both firms and workers may be cont
New Working Paper by Nancy Folbre: Just Deserts? Earnings Inequality and Bargaining Power in the U.S. Economy
From the abstract: Harvard economist Gregory Mankiw defends the high earnings of the top one percent in the U.S. with a t