Today at 4 p.m., Nancy Folbre, chair of the economics department, will give a lecture titled, “Our Children, Our Students, Ourselves: Public Education and the Production of Human Capabilities.” The ...

How can a modern society get its caretaking work performed if women are no longer confined to the caretaking roles? Nancy Folbre is a prominent feminist economist who has devoted much of her ...

PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay in Washington. Nancy Folbre, in her blog on The New York Times, wrote the following: “The Great Recession has sometimes ...

Because this kind of work eludes economic formulas, third parties determine the wage and the price, says a feminist economist who will visit Eckerd College. In a field of study enamored of formulas, ...

MacArthur Award winner Folbre (Greed, Lust and Gender) examines the historical persistence of gender inequality in this wide-ranging scholarly account. Though an educated, skilled workforce is ...

The Distinguished Faculty Lecture series began yesterday with Nancy Folbre, who analyzed the function of money in society. “There is no strict dividing line between love and money,” Folbre said.

Nancy Folbre hits on one of my favorite rejoinders to the annoying, if fading, liberal yawner that Democrats lost so many elections because millions of heartland Americans voted Republican against ...

Economics professor Nancy Folbre had an idea about how Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman have been able to fuck younger men succeed in business and now in politics without necessarily boosting the overall ...