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JULIET B. SCHOR
Department of Sociology
Boston College
531 McGuinn Hall
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
ph: 617-552-4056
fax: 617-552-4283
email: [email protected]
PERSONAL DATA Born November 9, 1955; citizenship, U.S.A.
POSITIONS
Professor of Sociology, Boston College, July 2001-present. Department Chair, July 20052008. Director of Graduate Studies, July 2011-January 2013.
Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced
Studies, Harvard University, 2014-2015.
Visiting Professor, Women, Gender and Sexuality, Harvard University, 2013.
Visiting Professor, Yale School of Environment and Forestry, 2012, Spring 2010.
Senior Scholar, Center for Humans and Nature, 2011.
Senior Lecturer on Women’s Studies and Director of Studies, Women's Studies, Harvard
University, 1997-July 2001. Acting Chair, 1998-1999, 2000-2001.
Professor, Economics of Leisure Studies, University of Tilburg, 1995-2001.
Senior Lecturer on Economics and Director of Studies in Women’s Studies, Harvard
University, 1992-1996.
Associate Professor of Economics, Harvard University, 1989-1992.
Research Advisor, Project on Global Macropolicy, World Institute for Development
Economics Research (WIDER), United Nations, 1985-1992.
Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard University, 1984-1989.
Assistant Professor of Economics, Barnard College, Columbia University, 1983-84.
Assistant Professor of Economics, Williams College, 1981-83.
Research Fellow, Brookings Institution, 1980-81.
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Teaching Fellow, University of Massachusetts, 1976-79.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Economics, University of Massachusetts, 1982.
Dissertation: "Changes in the Cyclical Variability of Wages: Evidence from Nine
Countries, 1955-1980"
B.A., Economics, Wesleyan University, 1975 (Magna Cum Laude)
HONORS AND AWARDS
Humanist of the Year, Boston Ethical Community, 2016.
Finalist, 2014 best article award, Journal of Consumer Research for “The Underdog
Effect: The Marketing of Disadvantage through Brand Biography.” (with Neeru Paharia,
Anat Keinan and Jill Avery).
American Sociological Association Public Understanding of Sociology Award, 2014.
Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, named Matina
S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2014-15.
Graduate Student Teaching and Mentoring Award, Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences, Boston College, 2014.
Carpenter Award, Economics Division, Babson College, February 2013.
Herman Daly Award, US Society for Ecological Economics, June 2011.
Herbert Spencer Lecturer, Oxford University, March 2009.
Leontief Prize for Expanding the Frontiers of Economic Thought, Global Development
and Environment Institute at Tufts, October 2006.
George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public
Language, for The Overspent American, National Council of Teachers of English, 1998.
Citation of Excellence, ANBAR Electronic Intelligence, for article on “Empirical Tests
of Status Consumption,” Journal of Economic Psychology, 1998.
Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1995-96.
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Maurer-Stump Award, Reading-Berks Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America,
1994.
The Overworked American was chosen for: Princeton University Library's Noteworthy
Books in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics in 1991; New York Times, notable
books of 1992; Business Week, best business books of 1992; Los Angeles Times, best
business books of 1992; Boston Globe, Editor's Choice for non-fiction books of 1992;
The Progressive, best books of 1992; New York Times, noteworthy paperbacks, June
1993.
Brookings Research Fellowship in Economic Studies, 1980-81.
Distinguished Teacher Award, University of Massachusetts, 1978.
GRANTS
Research Council of Norway, 2017-2020, for project on The SHARing economy,”
$29,169.
MacArthur Foundation 2014-2017, for project on Connected Economies, $288,728.
Compton Foundation 2013-2014, for Summer Institute in New Economics, $26,000.
Garfield Foundation 2013-2014, for Summer Institute in New Economics, $26,000.
Johnson Foundation, 2013-2014, for Summer Institute in New Economics, $34,000.
SARE grant, USDA, 2012-2013, for Graduate Student Support for project on Community
Supported Agriculture, $15,000.
Garfield Foundation, 2012-2013, for Summer Institute in New Economics, $25,000.
Compton Foundation, 2012-2013, for Summer Institute in New Economics, $25,000.
VK Rasmussen Foundation, 2012-2013, for Summer Institute in New Economics,
$25,000.
MacArthur Foundation, 2011-2013, for project on Connected Consumption, $265,000.
Research Incentive Grant, Boston College, 2010, for project on Sustainable
Consumption, $15,000.
The Philanthropic Collaborative, Inc. 1999-2009, for project on the Commercialization of
Childhood, $20,000.
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Merck Family Fund, 1994-95, for project on American Consumerism, $20,000.
Global Stewardship Initiative, Pew Charitable Trusts, 1994-95, for project on American
Consumerism, $25,000.
Curriculum Innovation Fund, Harvard University, 1993.
American Express Fund for Curricular Development in Ethics, Harvard University, 1990.
Economic Policy Institute, 1989.
Warburg Fund, Harvard University, 1987.
Harvard Institute for Economic Research, Harvard University, 1986.
Clark Fund, Harvard University, 1985-1989, 1991, 1993.
BOOKS
“Toward a Plenitude Economy,” Kindle ebook, 2015.
Sustainable Lifestyles and the Quest for Plenitude: Case Studies of the New Economy,
eds Juliet B. Schor and Craig J. Thompson (New Haven: Yale University Press), July
2014.
Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in Society-in Nature,” New York: United
Nations Division for Sustainable Development, 2013. Australian edition (Canberra:
Australian National University E Press). French translation Vivement 2050! Programme
pour une economie soutenable et desirable (Paris: Institut Veblen 2013). Chinese
Translation (Singapore: World Scientific) 2014. (with Robert Costanza et al). Excerpted
in The Green Economy Reader: Lectures in Ecological Economics and Sustainability,
ed., Stanislav E. Shmelev (Springer), 2016.
Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth (The Penguin Press) May 2010.
Australian edition (Scribe) 2010. Korean edition (Wisdomhouse Publishing) 2010.
Chinese edition, 2010. Japanese edition (Iwanami Shobo) 2011. Paperback edition retitled True Wealth: how and why millions of Americans are creating a time-rich,
ecologically-light, small-scale, high-satisfaction economy (Penguin 2011). French edition
(Editions Charles Leopold Mayer) 2012. Excerpted in Yes magazine, September 2011.
Video version entitled The New Economics 101: True Wealth in the New Economy,
Media Education Foundation, March 2013. German edition (oekom Verlag) 2016.
Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture (New York:
Scribner), September 2004. (excerpted in Brain, Child magazine, Summer 2004, Newark
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Star-Ledger, September 2004, Boston College Magazine, Fall 2004, and as “Age
Compression,” Real Essays, 3e, editor Susan Anker (New York: St Martins), 2008.)
Paperback edition 2005. Italian Edition (Apogeo) 2005. Korean edition (Hainaim) 2005.
Spanish edition (Ediciones Paidos) 2006. Chinese edition (Commonwealh Magazine Co.)
2006. Indonesian (Marjin Kiri) 2009. Brazilian (Editora Gente) 2010. Thai (Foundation
for Children) 2010. Japanese (Aspect Corporation) 2010.
Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the 21st Century, eds., Juliet B. Schor and Betsy Taylor
(Boston: Beacon Press), 2002.
The Consumer Society: A Reader, eds., Juliet B. Schor and Douglas Holt, (New York:
New Press), 2000.
Do Americans Shop Too Much? (Boston: Beacon Press), 2000. (Excerpt reprinted in
Global History Since 1950, Edward Farmer. 2007 Kendall/Hunt).
The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting and the New Consumer, June 1998.
(New York: Basic Books). Paperback Edition. (New York: HarperCollins), 1999.
Japanese edition (Tokyo: Iwanami Shobo), 2000. Video version entitled The Overspent
American: Why We Want What We Don’t Need, produced by Media Education
Foundation, September 2003. Chinese edition 2010.
Travail, une revolution a venir, Mille et une nuits (with Domique Meda).
A Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century, revised edition of 1995 pamphlet, Seven
Stories Press, 1998. Reprinted in The New American Crisis: Radical Analyses of the
Problems Facing America Today, eds. Greg Ruggiero and Stuart Sahulka (New York:
The New Press) 1995. Korean edition by Mosek Publishing Company (Seoul), 2003.
The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure, (New York: Basic
Books) January, 1992. Paperback edition 1993. Japanese edition (Tokyo: Mado-Sha)
1993. Spanish edition 1995. Chinese edition 2009. Chapter two reprinted in Anita Garey
and Karen Hansen, Families: Kinship and Domestic Politics in the U.S., (Philadelphia:
Temple University Press) 1997. Excerpted in Henri Nouwen et al, Simpler Living
Compassionate Life (Denver: Living the Good News) 1999. Excerpted in Sonia Maasik
and Jack Solomon, eds., Signs of Life in the U.S.A.: Readings on Popular Culture for
Writers (New York:Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2003, pp. 606-617), and X.J. Kennedy,
Dorothy M. Kennedy and Marcia F. Muth, eds., The Bedford Guide for College Writers
with Reader 9e, New York:Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2010).
Capital, the State and Labour: A Global Perspective, eds., Juliet B. Schor and Jong-il
You, (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar), 1995.
Financial Openness and National Policy Autonomy, eds., Tariq Banuri and Juliet B.
Schor, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press Imprint), 1992.
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The Golden Age of Capitalism: Reinterpreting the Postwar Experience, eds., Stephen A.
Marglin and Juliet B. Schor, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press Imprint),
1989. Paperback edition 1992. Japanese edition 1993.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
(for jointly authored papers authorship is equal except where first authors are identified
by italic text)
“Complicating Conventionalization,”2017, Journal of Marketing Management,
forthcoming (with Connor Fitzmaurice).
“The Sharing Economy: labor, inequality and sociability on for-profit platforms,” 2017,
Sociology Compass, (Juliet B. Schor and William Attwood-Charles), forthcoming.
“Does the Sharing Economy Increase Inequality Within the Eighty Percent?: Findings
from a Qualitative Study of Platform Providers,” 2017, Cambridge Journal of Regions,
Economy and Society, forthcoming.
“Domestic Inequality and Carbon Emissions,” 2017, Ecological Economics, (with
Andrew Jorgenson and Xiaorui Huang), forthcoming.
“Putting the Sharing Economy into Perspective,” 2017, Environmental Innovation and
Societal Transitions, (with Koen Frenken), forthcoming.
“Wealth Inequality and Carbon Dioxide Emissions in High-Income Countries,” 2017,
Social Currents, (with Kyle W. Knight and Andrew K. Jorgenson), forthcoming.
“Paradoxes of Openness and Distinction in the Sharing Economy,” 2016, Poetics, (Juliet
B. Schor, Connor Fitzmaurice, Lindsey B. Carfagna, and Will Attwood-Charles), 54:6681.
“Domestic Inequality and Carbon Emissions in Comparative Perspective,” 2016,
Sociological Forum, (with Andrew Jorgenson, Juliet B. Schor, Kyle Knight and Xiaorui
Huang).
“Income Inequality and Residential Carbon Emissions in the United States: A
Preliminary Analysis,” 2015, Human Ecology Review, 22(1):93-105. (with Andrew K.
Jorgenson, Juliet B. Schor, Xiaorui Huang and Jared Fitzgerald).
“Climate, Inequality and the Need to Reframe Climate Policy,” 2015, Review of Radical
Political Economics, 47(4): 525-536 (lead article).
“Climate Discourse and Economic Downturns: The case of the United States, 20082013,” Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 13:6-20, December 2014.
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“Economic growth and climate change: A cross-national analysis of territorial and
consumption-based CO2 emissions in the OECD. Sustainability, 2014; 6(6):3722-3731
(with Kyle W. Knight).
“An emerging eco-habitus: the reconfiguration of high cultural capital practices among
ethical consumers,” Journal of Consumer Culture, 14(2):1-21, 2014. (with Lindsey B.
Carfagna, Emilie A. Dubois, Connor Fitzmaurice, Thomas Laidley, Monique Ouimette,
and Margaret Willis). (lead article)
“Could Working Less Reduce Pressures on the Environment?: A Cross-National Panel
Analysis of OECD Countries, 1970-2007, Global Environmental Change, 23: 691-700,
2013. (with Kyle W. Knight and Eugene A. Rosa).
“Does Changing a Light Bulb Lead to Changing the World? Civic Engagement and the
Ecologically Conscious Consumer,” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political
and Social Science, 644 (1):160–190, 2012 (with Margaret Willis).
“Econ4: Economics for People, the Planet and the Future,” International Journal of
Pluralism and Economics Education, 2012, (with James K. Boyce, Gerald Epstein, Juliet
Schor and Douglas K. Smith).
“The Underdog Effect: The Marketing of Disadvantage through Brand Biography,”
Journal of Consumer Research, 37(5) February 2011. (with Neeru Paharia, Anat
Keinan and Jill Avery).
“Combating Consumerism and Capitalism: A Decade after No Logo” Women’s Studies
Quarterly, Fall/Winter 2010.
“Morality and Critique in Consumer Studies,” Journal of Consumer Culture, 10:274291, 2010.
“The Strategic Use of Brand Biographies,” Research in Consumer Behavior, vol 4, (with
Jill Avery, Neeru Paharia and Anat Keinan) 2010.
“Mental Health and Children’s Consumer Culture,” Journal of the American Academy of
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 47(5):486-490, May 2008.
“In Defense of Consumer Critique: Re-visiting the Consumption Debates of the 20th
Century,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 611:1630, May 2007. Reprinted in Alan Warde, Consumption (Los Angeles: SAGE) 2010.
“From Tastes Great to Cool: Children’s Food Marketing and the Rise of the Symbolic,”
Journal of Medicine, Law and Ethics, 35(1):10-21, Spring 2007. (with Margaret Ford).
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“Tackling Turbo Consumption: An Interview,” Soundings: A Journal of Politics and
Culture, 34:45-55, Autumn 2006. Reprinted in Special Issue of Cultural Studies, Sam
Binkley and Jo Littler, eds. 2008.
“Prices and Quantities: Unsustainable Consumption and the Global Economy,”
Ecological Economics, 55(3), November 2005. Reprinted in Recent Developments in
Ecological Economics, eds. Juan Martinez-Alier and Inge Røpke, Edward Elgar 2007.
"Sustainable Consumption and Worktime Reduction," Journal of Industrial Ecology,
Special Issue on Sustainable Consumption, 9(1):37-50, 2005. Reprinted in The Costs of
Economic Growth, ed, Peter A. Victor (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar), 2013.
“Interview with Juliet Schor” (by Douglas Holt), Journal of Consumer Culture, 5(1):521, 2005.
“From Obscurity to People Magazine,” contribution to Public Sociologies: A Symposium
from Boston College, lead author Michael Burawoy, Social Problems, 51(1):121-124,
February 2004.
“Older Consumers and the Ecological Dilemma,” The Age Explosion: Baby Boomers
and Beyond, Harvard Generations Policy Journal, 1:79-90, Winter 2004.
“The Commodification of Childhood: Tales from the Advertising Front Lines,”
Hedgehog Review, 5(2): 7-23, Summer 2003:
“Understanding the New Consumerism: Inequality, Emulation and the Erosion of WellBeing,” Tijdschrift voor Sociologie, 23(1):10-20, 2002. (in Flemish translation).
Reprinted in Rotman Magazine, (University of Toronto Business School), special issue
entitled “The All-Consuming Issue,” Spring 2008.
“The Triple Imperative: Global Ecology, Poverty and Worktime Reduction,” Berkeley
Journal of Sociology, 45:2-17, 2001.
“The New Politics of Consumption,” Boston Review 24(3-4):4-9, Summer 1999.
Reprinted in The Contemporary Reader, eighth edition, Gary Goshgarian, Longman
2004; Voluntary Simplicity: Responding to Consumer Culture, eds. Daniel Doherty and
Amitai Etzioni (Lanham,MD: Rowman and Littlefield) 2003:65-82; Voluntary
Simplicity: The Poetic Alternative to Consumer Culture, ed., Samuel Alexander
(Auckland, NZ: Stead and Daughter’s ), 2009, pp. 253-270; Social Science Library:
Frontier Thinking in Sustainable Development and Human Well-Being (GDAE, Tufts
University), 2009; Gender, Race and Class in Media, Gail Dines and Jean Humez, eds,
(second and third editions, Sage 2002, 2010), The Language of Composition_Reclear, 2e,
Renee H. Shea, Lawrence Scanlon, and Robin Dissin Aufses, (New York: BFW High
School, 2017.)
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"Empirical Tests of Status Consumption: Evidence from Women's Cosmetics," Journal
of Economic Psychology, 19(1):107-131, 1998, (with Angela Chao).
"Beyond Work and Spend," Vrijtijd Studies, 16(1):7-20, 1998.
"Work, Free Time and Consumption," Time and Society, 7(1):119-128, 1998. Reprinted
in Replika, in Hungarian Translation, Fall 2010.
"What's Wrong with Consumer Capitalism: The Joyless Economy after Twenty Years,"
Critical Review, 10(4);495-508, Fall 1996.
"The Federal Reserve-Treasury Accord and the Construction of the Postwar Monetary
Regime," Social Concept, 1995, (with Gerald A. Epstein).
"Work, Time and Money: New Policies for America," Vrijetijd en Samenleving, 12(3):922, November 1995.
"Worktime in Contemporary Context: Amending the Fair Labor Standards Act,"
Chicago-Kent Law Review, 70(100):100-115, 1995.
"Assessing the Time Squeeze Hypothesis: Estimates of Market and Non-market Hours in
the United States, 1969-1989," Industrial Relations, 33(1):25-43, 1994, (with Laura
Leete-Guy).
"Global Inequality and Environmental Crisis: An Argument for Reducing Working Hours
in the North," World Development, 19(1)73-84. January 1991. Reprinted in Creating a
New World Economy, eds., Gerald Epstein, Julie Graham and Jessica Nembhard,
(Philadelphia: Temple University Press), 1993.
"Employment Rents and the Incidence of Strikes," Review of Economics and Statistics,
LXIX(4):584-592, November 1987 (with Samuel Bowles).
"Changes in the Cyclical Pattern of Real Wages: Evidence from Nine Countries, 19551980," Economic Journal, 95:452-468, June 1985.
JOURNAL ARTICLES UNDER REVIEW OR IN PROCESS
“Dependence and Precarity in the Platform Economy,” 2017 (with William AttwoodCharles, Mehmet Cansoy, Isak Ladegaard and Robert Wengronowitz).
“Handmade Matters: The Anatomy of a Failed Circuit of Commerce,” 2016, (with
Connor Fitzmaurice), conditional acceptance, Social Problems.
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“Domesticating the market: Moral exchange and the sharing economy, 2016, R&R at
Socio-Economic Review (with Connor Fitzmaurice, Isak Ladegaard, William AttwoodCharles, Mehmet Cansoy, Luka Carfagna, and Robert Wengronowitz).
“Distinction at Work: Status Practices in a Community Production Environment,” (with
Will Attwood-Charles), 2016.
“Working Time Reduction and Carbon Dioxide Emissions: A State-Level Analysis,”
(with Jared Fitzgerald and Andrew Jorgenson), 2016.
“Who Gets to Share in the “Sharing Economy: Understanding the Patterns of
Participation and Exchange in Airbnb,” (with Mehmet Cansoy), 2016.
“The Sharing Economy: Reports from Stage One,” 2015, working paper.
“Homo Varians: Diverse Economic Behaviors in New Sharing Markets,” 2015, working
paper.
BOOK CHAPTERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“Forward,” 2017, Generation Wealth by Lauren Greenfield (London:Phaidon).
The new sharing economy: enacting the eco-habitus,” 2017, Sustainable Consumption
and Social Change, eds, Halina Brown, Maurie Cohen and Philip Vergragt, (Routledge:
London), (with Robert Wengronowitz).
“From the “universal” consumer to the “universal” consumer activist,” 2017, in
Universal Resistance: How To Move Beyond Inequality, Militarism and Planetary Peril,
Charles Derber, (New York: Routledge), forthcoming.
“Consumption,” 2017, in Essential Concepts in Sociology, ed, J. Michael Ryan (New
York: Wiley), forthcoming.
“Old Exclusion in Emergent Spaces” 2016, Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of
Platform Cooperativism, eds, Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider, (OR Books).
“The Sharing Economy: Reports from Stage One,” 2016, XING Magazin, (excerpts, in
German).
“Preface to the German Edition,” 2016, Plenitude, (oekom Verlag).
“What Can We Do About Economic Inequality?” 2016, Anglican Theological Review,
98(1):23-32, Winter.
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“Climate and Consumption,” in Climate Change and Society: Sociological Perspectives,
Riley E. Dunlap and Robert J. Brulle, eds., (New York: Oxford University Press), (with
Karen Ehrhardt-Martinez), 2015.
Reply to K. Sabeel Rahman, “Contesting Private Power,” The Boston Review, Spring
2015.
“Reading Capital in the Anthropocene,” in The Disinherited Majority: Capital Question
Piketty and Beyond, ed., Charles Derber, (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers), 2015.
“Collaborating and Connecting: The Emergence of a Sharing Economy,” Handbook on
Research on Sustainable Consumption, eds., Lucia Reisch and John Thogersen,
(Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar), (with Connor Fitzmaurice) 2015.
“Getting Sharing Right” Contexts, 14(1):14-15, 2015.
“Le materialism véritable : Travailler moins pour gagner moins et vivre plus,” Interview
article, Commencements 6 Ruptures (11): 7-12. 2013-2014.
“The Future of Work, Leisure, and Consumption...In an Age of Economic and Ecological
Crisis: An Interview with Juliet Schor,” Dollars and Sense: Real World Economics,
September/October 2014.
“Debating the Sharing Economy,” Essay published by the Great Transition Initiative,
Tellus Institute, available at http://www.greattransition.org/, October 2014. (Reprinted or
excerpted at http://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/debating-the-sharing-economy,
http://www.shareable.net/blog/debating-the-sharing-economy, www.brinknews.com
http://www.forumforthefuture.org/,
http://openipub.com/?pub=DebatingtheSharingEconomy.html
http://www.intelligenthq.com/social-business-2/debating-the-sharing-economy-part-1/)
Commons Transition Special Report, Commons Transition, P2P Foundation.
Journal of Self-Governance and Management Economics 4(3), 2016.
“Introduction: Practicing Plenitude,” in Sustainable Lifestyles and the Quest for
Plenitude: Case Studies of the New Economy, (New Haven: Yale University Press), (with
Craig Thompson), 2014, pp. 1-26.
“Cooperative Networks, Participatory Markets, and Rhizomatic Resistance: Situating
Plenitude within Contemporary Political Economy Debates,” in Sustainable Lifestyles
and the Quest for Plenitude: Case Studies of the New Economy, (New Haven: Yale
University Press), (with Craig Thompson), 2014, pp. 233-251.
“New Cultures of Consumption in a Boston Time Bank,” in Sustainable Lifestyles and
the Quest for Plenitude: Case Studies of the New Economy, Juliet Schor and Craig
Thompson, (New Haven: Yale University Press), (with Emilie A. Dubois and Lindsey B.
Carfagna), 2014, pp. 95-124.
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“Worksharing,” in Degrowth: a vocabulary for a new era, eds, Giacomo D'alisa,
Federico Demaria and Giorgos Kallis, (New York: Routledge), 2014.
“Why Solving Climate Change Requires Working Less,” in Time on Our Side: Why We
All Need a Shorter Working Week, eds. Anna Coote and Jane J. Franklin, (London: new
economics foundation), 2013.
“From Fast Fashion to Connected Consumption: Slowing Down the Spending
Treadmill,” in Culture of the Slow: Social Deceleration in an Accelerated World, ed.,
Nick Osbaldiston (Basingstoke,UK: Palgrave Macmillan), 2013.
“More of Less: Juliet Schor Calls for a More Conscious Lifestyle,” Interview with Juliet
Schor by Christina Asquith, The Solutions Journal, 4(1): February 2013.
“The Paradox of Materiality: Fashion, Marketing, and the Planetary Ecology,” Routledge
Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture, eds, Matthew McAllister and Emily
West, (London: Routledge), 2013.
“Reducing growth to achieve environmental sustainability: the role of work hours,” in
Capitalism on Trial: Explorations in the Tradition of Thomas Weisskopf, Robert Pollin
and Jeannette Wicks-Lim, eds. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar) (with Kyle Knight and
Eugene A. Rosa), 2013.
“Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design,” A Report from the
MacArthur Connected Learning Research Network (Chicago: MacArthur Foundation),
(with Mizuko Ito, Kris Gutierrez, Sonia Livingstone, Bill Penuel, Jean Rhodes, Katie
Salen, Julian Sefton-Green and S. Craig Watkins), 2013.
“Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature,” in STATE OF
THE WORLD 2013, World Watch Institute (NY: Norton), 2013. (with Robert Costanza,
Gar Alperovitz, Herman Daly, Joshua Farley, Carol Franco, Tim Jackson, Ida
Kubiszewski, and Peter Victor), 2013. Reprinted in Creating a Sustainable and Desirable
Future: Insights from 45 global thought leaders, eds., Robert Costanza and Ida
Kubiszewski (New Jersey: World Scientific), 2014.
Contribution to Forum on Michael Sandel’s What Money Can’t Buy, Hedgehog Review,
2012.
“Preface,” Learning for Sustainability in Times of Accelerating Change, eds., Arjen Wals
and Peter Blaze Corcoran, (Wageningen, NL: Wageningen Academic Publishers), 2012.
“Exit Ramp to Sustainability,” in Growth in Transition, Friedrich Hinterberger et al, eds.
(New York: Routledge), 2012, pp. 66-72.
“Response to Dara O’Rourke on Ethical Consumption, in Boston Review, Winter 2011.
Reprinted in Ethical Consumption (MIT Press), 2012.
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“Toward a Plenitude Economy,” 31st Annual Invited E.F. Schumacher Lecture, E. F.
Schumacher Society Pamphlet, 2011. Reprinted in Rural America blog, In These Times,
2015, available at: http://inthesetimes.com/rural-america/entry/18256/the-neweconomics-of-plentitude
“Shopapalooza: The Boom and Bust of the Retail Economy,” in Brian Ulrich, Is this a
Great Place or What? (New York: Aperture), 2011.
“The Viacom Generation: The Rise of Corporate Parenthood,” in The Emotional Eye of
Families and Work: Essays in Honor of Arlie Russell Hochschild, Anita Ilta Garey and
Karen V. Hansen, eds, (Rutgers University Press), 2011.
“Interview on Post-Growth Discourse,” in Post-Growth Society, Irmi Seidl and Angelika
Zahrnt, 2010.
“Academic as Social Entrepreneur: creating organizations for social change,” in
Sociologists in Action, Michelle White and Kathleen Korgen Los Angeles: Sage), 2010.
Second Edition, 2013.
Interview with Juliet Schor, Resistance Against Empire: Interviews with Derrick Jensen,
ed., Derrick Jensen, (Oakland, CA: PM Press), 2010, pp. 91-113.
“The Underdog Effect: The Marketing of Disadvantage through Brand Biography,
Extended Abstract,” Advances in Consumer Research, vol. 37 (ACR: Provo, Utah), 2010.
(with Neeru Paharia, Anat Keinan and Jill Avery)
“Healthy Schedules for All,” in “STATE OF THE WORLD 2010 Transforming Cultures:
From Consumerism to Sustainability” World Watch Institute, (W.W. Norton), 2010.
“Childhood as Profit-Center: marketing and the construction of consumer kids,” in The
Insecure American, Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson, eds., (University of
California Press), 2009.
“Simple Sustainability: Principles for a New Economy,” in Less is More, eds., Cecile
Andrews and Wanda Urbanska, (New Society Publishers), 2009.
“Shop ‘Til You Drop, “ in David Eliot Cohen, editor, What Matters (New York: Sterling
Books), 2008.
“A Sociologist Dreams of a New America,” Contexts, 7(2):12-13, Spring 2008.
“Overturning the Modernist Predictions: Recent Trends in Work and Leisure,” Handbook
of Leisure Studies, eds., Chris Rojek, Susan Shaw and Tony Veal, (Houndmills,
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) 2007.
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“Children and Consumerism,” Encyclopedia on Children, Adolescents and the Media, ed.
Jeffrey Arnett, (Sage), 2007.
“Conspicuous Consumption,” Encyclopedia of Sociology, ed. George Ritzer (Oxford:
Blackwell), 2007:681-686. Reprinted in the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of
Consumption and Consumer Studies, eds, Daniel Cook and Michael Ryan. 2015.
“Spending Nation: Consumerism and the Future of Liberal Values,” in Higher
Education: Open for Business, ed., Christian Gilde (Lexington Books), 2007:125-138.
“Consumer Culture,” entry for International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology, eds.
Jens Beckert and Milan Zafirovski, (London: Routledge), 2006.
“Interview with Juliet Schor,” in Global Values 101: A Short Course in Progressive Ideas
for the 21st Century, eds. Brian Palmer, Kate Holbrook, Ann Kim and Anna Portnoy
(Boston: Beacon Press), 2006.
“When Childhood Gets Commercialized, Can Children Be Protected?” in Ulla Carlsson,
ed. Regulation, Awareness, Empowerment: Young People and Harmful Media Content in
the Digital Age (Goteborg, Sweden: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and
Media) 2006:101-122. Also reprinted in In the Service of Young People? Studies and
Reflections on Media in the Digital Age, eds., Ulla Carlsson and Cecilia Von Feilitzen
(Goteborg, Sweden: The International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media)
2006: 27-48 and in Below the Line Marketing—Concepts and Cases (Hyderabad, India:
Institute of Chartered Financial Analysis, 2006).
"Work, Family and Children’s Consumer Culture," in Unfinished Work: Building
Equality and Democracy in an Era of Working Families, eds. Jody Heymann and
Christopher Beem, (New York: New Press), 2005:285-305.
“Born to Buy: Interview with Juliet Schor,” Dollars and Sense: The Magazine of
Economic Justice, #225:24-29, September/October 2004.
“Why Do We Consume So Much?” in Joseph R. Desjardins and John J. McCall,
Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics, Fifth Edition, (Thomson/Wadsworth: Belmont,
CA): 2004:373-378. Reprinted in The Composition of Everyday Life: A Guide to Writing,
Second Edition (Thomson Learning) 2006, and William H. Shaw and Vincent Barry and
Panagiotou, Moral Issues in Business (Mason, Ohio: Nelson Education) 2009.
“Interview with Juliet Schor” (by Dennis Soron), Aurora Online, 2004.
“U.S. Consumers, Cheap Manufactures, and the Global Sweatshop,” in State of the World
2004, Special Focus: The Consumer Society (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute),
2004.
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“Consumerism and Community,” in Dan Shilling, editor, Conversations on Community,
(Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Humanities Council), 2003:47-56.
“The (even more) Overworked American,” in John de Graff, editor, Take Back Your
Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler:)
2003. (excerpted in Boston College Magazine, Winter 2004, p. 15.)
“Less Stuff, More Fun: Interview with Juliet Schor,” Indicators, 2(1):1-10, Winter 20023.
"Cleaning the Closet: Toward a New Ethic of Fashion," in Sustainable Planet: Solutions
for the 21st Century (Boston: Beacon Press) November 2002. Reprinted in
Environmental Sociology: from Analysis to Action, Third Edition eds, Leslie King and
Deborah McCArthy Auriffeille (Lanham, MD: Roman and Littlefield), 2014.
“Een wegenkaart voor de 21ste eeuw: arbeidstijd en duurzame consumptie,” Oikos
21(2):76-90, 2002.
"Roundtable on Advertising and Values," Advertising and Society Review, #3:1, 2002.
“Time Crunch Among American Parents,” in Taking Parenting Public, eds., Sylvia
Hewlett, Nancy Rankin and Cornel West (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield) 2002.
“Working Hours and Time Pressure: The controversy about trends in time use,” in
Working Time: International Trends, Theory and Policy, eds. Deb Figart and Lonnie
Golden (London: Routledge), 2000.
“Voluntary Downshifting in the 1990s,” Power, Employment and Accumulation: Social
Structures in Economic Theory and Practice, ed. James Stanford (Armonk, NY: M.E.
Sharpe) 2000.
“What’s Wrong with Consumer Society? Competitive Spending and the New
Consumerism,” in Consuming Passions, ed., Roger Rosenblatt, (Washington: Island
Press), 1999.
“Inequality and the New Consumerism,” in Background Papers for the 1998 Human
Development Report,” 1999.
"New Analytic Bases for an Economic Critique of Consumer Society," The Ethics of
Consumption: The Good Life, Justice and Global Stewardship, ed. David Crocker and
Toby Linden, 1997 (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield) (also reprinted in
Consumption: Critical Concepts, ed. Daniel Miller, Routledge 2001 and in newsletter of
PEGS, Political Economy of the Good Society, Spring 1995)
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"Beyond an Economy of Work and Spend," Inaugural Oration for Chair in the Economics
of Leisure, Tilburg University, (Tilburg: Tilburg University Press), July 1997. Reprinted
in Why Work? 2016. (London: Freedom House Press).
"Utopias of Women's Time," in Feminist Utopias, ed. Marrie Becker, (Tilburg: Tilburg
University Press), 1997.
"Work, Time and Leisure in the USA," in Work, Leisure and the Quality of Life; A
Global Perspective, ed. Chris Gratton, Leisure Industries Research Centre, 6-21, 1996.
"A Reply to Ceasar," A PEGS Journal: The Good Society, 6(3):45-46, Fall 1996.
"The New American Dream, Demos Quarterly, Special Issue on The Time Squeeze,
5:30, 1995.
"Can the North Stop Consumption Growth?: Escaping the Cycle of Work and Spend" in
V. Bhaskar and Andrew Glyn, The North, the South and the Environment, (London:
Earthscan), 1995.
"The Great American Time Squeeze," Economic Policy Institute, February 1992, (with
Laura Leete-Guy).
"Structural Determinants and Economic Effects of Capital Controls in the OECD," in
Financial Openness and National Policy Autonomy, eds. Banuri and Schor, 1992, (with
Gerald A. Epstein).
"Corporate Profitability as a Determinant of Restrictive Monetary Policy: Estimates for
the Postwar United States" in The Political Economy of American Monetary Policy, ed.,
Thomas Mayer (Cambridge University Press), 1990 (with Gerald A. Epstein).
"Macroeconomic Policy in the Rise and Fall of the Golden Age," in The Golden Age of
Capitalism, eds., Marglin and Schor, 1990, (with Gerald A. Epstein).
"The Underproduction of Leisure: The Economics of Output Bias," mimeo, November
1990 (revised Harvard Institute for Economic Research Discussion Paper #1125).
"The Divorce of the Banca d'Italia and the Italian Treasury: A Case Study of Central
Bank Independence," in The State and Social Regulation: New Perspectives, eds., P.
Lange and M. Regini, (Cambridge University Press), 1989 (with Gerald A. Epstein).
"The Determinants of Central Bank Policies in Open Economies," in The Political
Economy of Central Bank Intervention, eds. Bruno Jossa and Carlo Panico, (Naples:
Liguori) 1988 (with Gerald A. Epstein).
"Does Work Intensity Respond to Macroeconomic Variables? Evidence from British
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Manufacturing, 1970-1986," Harvard Institute for Economic Research, Discussion Paper
#1379, April 1988.
"Class Struggle and the Macroeconomy: The Cost of Job Loss," in Imperiled Economy: A
Left Perspective, ed., Union for Radical Political Economics, 1987.
"The Political Economy of Central Banking," Harvard Institute for Economic Research,
Discussion Paper #1281, November 1986 (with Gerald A. Epstein).
"Wage Flexibility, Social Welfare Expenditures and Monetary Restrictiveness," Money
and Macro Policy, in ed., Marc Jarsulic (Boston: Kluwer-Nijhoff), 1985.
UNPUBLISHED WORKING PAPERS
“Consumption and Ecological Economics,” 2016.
“Three Agendas for Climate and Development Research and Policy,” 2015, (with J.
Timmons Roberts, Julia K. Steinberger, Thomas Dietz, William F. Lamb, Richard York,
Andrew K. Jorgenson, Jennifer E. Givens, Paul Baer, Juliet B. Schor)
“Time, For a Change: Transforming the Structures of Everyday Life,” September 1999.
“Consumerism, the Commodification of Ghetto Violence, and Underclass Status,”
November 1998 (with Douglas Holt).
“Civic Engagement and Working Hours: Do Americans Really Have More Free Time
than Ever Before?” September 1997.
"Refugees from the `Fat and Mean' Economy: Downshifting in the 1990s” March 1997.
"Do Americans Keep up with the Joneses? The Impact of Consumption Aspirations on
Savings Behaviour," May 1997.
"The Stress of Modernity," November 1994.
"Consumerism and the Decline of Family and Community: Preliminary Statistics from a
Survey on Time, Money, and Values," March 1995.
"Short of Time: American Families and the Structure of Jobs," March 1994.
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BOOK REVIEWS
Thrift: the history of an American cultural movement, by Andrew L. Yarrow, New York
Times Sunday Book Review, January 2015.
The New Consumers, by Norman Meyers and Jennifer Kent, Ecological Economics,
55(3), November 2005.
Over the Edge by Leo Bogart and Savage Pastimes by Harold Schechter, Washington
Post Book World, May 15, 2005, p.4.
Point of Pleasure: How Shopping Changed American Culture, by Sharon Zukin,
Contemporary Sociology, 34(1), 43-44, 2005.
“Who’s Going Bankrupt and Why? Reflections on The Fragile Middle Class,” Texas
Law Review, vol 79, April 2001.
Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping, by Paco Underhill, Boston Globe, June 1999.
Poor Richard's Principle: Recovering the American Dream Through the Moral
Dimension of Work, Business, and Money, by Robert Wuthnow, American Journal of
Sociology, September 1997.
Of Time and Money: The Making of Consumer Culture, by Gary Cross, Journal of
Economic Literature 1995.
The Costs of Living: How Market Freedom Erodes the Best Things in Life, by Barry
Schwartz, New York Times Book Review, July 17, 1994.
Wages and the Business Cycle, by Jonathan Michie, Journal of Economic Literature,
December 1988.
POPULAR ARTICLES AND BLOG POSTS
“Transformations in the Field of Lifestyles,” 2016, ConsumeThis! Blog, ASA Section on
Consumers and Consumption, October.
https://asaconsumers.wordpress.com/2016/10/18/consume-this-transformations-in-thefield-of-lifestyles/
“Work and the Changing Climate,” Future of Work Series, Pacific Standard Magazine,
Fall 2015. Originally posted at: http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/the-futureof-work-consider-the-changing-climate Reposted at:
naked capitalism, http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/11/the-future-of-work-and-therole-of-climate-change.html
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“Platform Providers in the “Sharing” Economy,” Work in Progress: Blog of the
American Sociological Association, Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work,
July 28 2015 (with William Attwood-Charles), available at:
http://workinprogress.oowsection.org/2015/07/28/platform-providers-in-the-sharingeconomy/
“The Tyranny of Leveled Workplaces,” Work in Progress: Blog of the American
Sociological Association, Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work, July 28
2015 (with William Attwood-Charles), available at:
http://workinprogress.oowsection.org/2015/08/17/the-tyranny-of-leveled-workplaces/
“Can there be a less materialist American Dream?” Interview with Juliet Schor by
Rebecca Rosen, The Atlantic, October 7, 2015.
“Put the Onus on the Free Market Architects,” Room for Debate Blog, New York Times
Online, May 12, 2015.
“12 Questions to…Interview with Juliet Schor,” GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for
Science and Society, 2/3:213-214, 2014.
“Going Beyond Buy Nothing Day,” Al Jazeera America, November 27, 2013.
“After the Jobs Disappear,” New York Times, International Edition, October 14, 2013.
“An Innovative Solution for Youth Unemployment,” The Guardian, Sustainable Business
Section, August 2012.
“Working Hours and Climate Change,” Cognoscenti, WBUR Blog, August 2012.
“Green Consumerism—Voting with Dollars or Distraction?” Room for Debate Blog, New
York Times Online, July 20, 2012
“Questions for Juliet Schor,” Rotman Magazine, Spring 2012.
“Economic Fallacies: Is it time to work more, or less?” The Guardian, Sustainable
Business Section, January 2012.
“Occupy Sustainability,” The Guardian, Sustainable Business Section, December 2011.
“Why we can’t spend our way back to normal,” Time Magazine, November 2011.
"Counter-intuition 101," Synthesis/Regeneration, 55, Summer, 2011.
“New Work Centers and High-Tech Self-Providing,” Synthesis/Regeneration 54, Winter,
2011.
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“The new work share policies: exit ramp to sustainability?” Yes magazine online,
http://www.yesmagazine.org/, August 9, 2010.
“Plenitude: a statement on economics, ecology and true wealth,” at changethis.com, June
2010, #71.
“A Cure for Consumption,” Boston Globe Op-ed, May 30, 2010.
“Beyond Business as Usual,” The Nation, May 24, 2010, pp. 6-8. Reprinted in Connect
Writing 3.0. (New York: McGraw-Hill) 2014.
“Tino Sehgal and Political Economy,” contribution to Guggenheim OnLine Forum
entitled Beyond Material Worth, February 2010.
“Forget Commercialism! The New Realities of Consumption and the Economy,” in June
Johnson, ed., Global Issues, Local Arguments, 2/e (Longman/Pearson), 2009.
“Global Growth, American Thrift,” Room for Debate Blog, New York Times online,
September 24, 2009.
“Eat Less Meat,” Room for Debate Blog, New York Times online, February 25, 2009.
“Holiday Shopping—Just Don’t,” Los Angeles Times, November 28, 2008.
“Au Pays Des Workaholics,” Philosophie Magazine, Paris, Novembre 2008.
“The Era of Cheap Goods is Over,” Boston Globe, Sunday, April 28, 2008 (with
Prasannan Parthasarathi).
“A Cleaner, Greener Christmas,” Boston Globe, Sunday, December 10, 2006.
“Advertising Unfairly Targets Kids,” in Advertising, ed Eleanor Stanford, (Farmington
Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press), 2006: 53-60. (excerpt from “Dematerializing Our Kids: an
interview with Juliet B. Schor, in Hope November/December 2004.)
“Junk Food Nation,” The Nation, August 2005, pp. 15-17. (with Gary Ruskin).
“Every Nook and Cranny: The Dangerous Spread of Commercialized Culture,”
Multinational Monitor, 25th Anniversary Edition, January/February 2005, pp. 20-23 (with
Gary Ruskin).
“Election Forum,” The Nation, December 12, 2004.
“Those Ads Are Enough to Make Your Kids Sick” Washington Post Outlook, B04,
September 12, 2004.
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“How Corporate America Targets Your Children,” Newark Star-Ledger, August 29,
2004.
“Clothes Encounters” Orion Magazine,.11, September/October 2004.
“Social Justice vs. The Cheap Sweater,” cover story, Enough! Spring 2004.
“Take Back Your Time,” More Than Money, Viewpoint column, Issue #36:35-37, 2004.
“Take Back Your Time,” Boston College Magazine Winter 2004.
“Chicken Dance Elmo and a Cashmere Twin-set? Thanks, but not this year” Boston
Globe, Ideas Section, Sunday, December 8, 2002.
“Why Americans Should Rest,” New York Times, op-ed, September 2, 2002.
“Integrating Work in Academe and Advocacy: A Conversation with Juliet Schor,” edited
by Briah Hoey, online article in Sloan Work-Family Online Research Network, Spring
2002.
“Why Harvard Needs a Living Wage,” Boston Globe, May 2001.
“My Millenial Wish--Real Vacations for All,” Center for a New American Dream
Syndication Service, May 2000.
“How I came to write The Overspent American,” Iris: A Journal About Women, #40,
Spring 2000.
“Consumed by Consumption,” Radcliffe Quarterly, Winter 2000.
Preface to Shifting Fortunes (Boston: United for a Fair Economy), 1999.
“We want what we cannot afford,” Op-ed reprinted in Boston Globe, Orlando TimesSentinel, Hope Magazine, May 1998.
Roundtable discussion on The Overspent American, Yes! Magazine, Summer 1998.
"Consumerism in the U.S.: Franck Amalric talks with Juliet Schor," Development
41(1):18-22,1998.
“The Good Life in the 21st Century: Towards a New American Dream,” Shift 1(1), Fall
1996.
"Trendicators" column, Working Woman, April 1995, August 1995.
"A Populist Manifesto," New York Times, op-ed, December 5, 1994
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"Debunking the Small Business Myth," Working Woman, November 1994.
"The Weekend" Parents, November 1994.
"Time" Sesame Street Parents, (25th Anniversary Issue), July/August 1994.
"Reply to Mari Osawa," Kikan Mado, volume 19, March 1994.
"All Work and No Play: It Doesn't Pay," New York Times, Business Section, August 29,
1993.
"Point/Counterpoint/Infotechnology: Family friend or Foe?" Hemispheres, July 1993.
Reprinted in Mastering College Reading, Theodore Knight, ed., (Richard D. Irwin),
1994.
"Are we Really That Lazy," interview, Newsweek, February 17, 1992. Reprinted in The
Crossfire Reader, ed., Myron Tusman (Allyn and Bacon), January 1992 and in Learning
Economics: A Practical Workbook, ed., Abhay B. Ghiara (Addison Wesley Longman),
July 1997.
"If You Think You're Working More and More Hours, You're Right," Los Angeles
Times,January 19, 1992.
"Work, Spend, Work, Spend: Is This Any Way to Live?" The Washington Post, January
19, 1992.
"Workers of the World, Unwind," Technology Review, November/ December 1991.
Excerpted in Journal of Institute for Political Economy, Japan, June 1993; and in Politica
ed Economia, Italy, December 1993.
"Americans Work Too Hard," New York Times, op-ed, July 25, 1991. Excerpted in The
Short Prose Reader, eds. G.H. Miller and H. S. Wiener, (New York: McGraw-Hill),
January 1994 and Checkpoints: Developing College English Skills, 3rd edition, Jack
Page, (Addison Wesley Longman).
"Why I am No Longer a Progressive," Zeta magazine, April 1989.
"The Art of Service," Zeta magazine, January 1989.
"Manufacturing Crisis?" Zeta magazine, November 1988.
"Peace Through Economic Cooperation: Moving Beyond Military and Economic
Dominance," Plowshare, vol. 13, #3, Summer 1988.
"Letters to Miss Moneypenny," Zeta magazine, July-August 1988.
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"The Great Trade Debates," Zeta magazine, March 1988. Reprinted in Creating a New
World Economy, eds, Epstein, Graham and Nembhard, (Philadelphia: Temple), 1993.
"Trials and Tradulations," Zeta magazine, January 1988.
"Hostile Takeovers: The Political Economy of U.S. Military Spending," Radical America,
vol. 21, #1, 1987.
Tunnel Vision: Labor, the World Economy, and Central America (Boston: South End
Press), 1987 (with Daniel Cantor).
"The Minimum Wage is a Growth Issue," Democratic Left, September 1987.
"Full Employment and the International Economy," Social Policy, Spring 1987.
"The Economics of Democracy," 1986, Part IV, The Economic Report of the People, ed.,
Center for Popular Economics, (Boston: South End Press).
"Full Employment: Beyond Zero-Sum," Democratic Left, vol. XIV, #2, March-April
1986.
"The Economics and Politics of Full Employment," Socialist Review, #81, May 1985.
ORGANIZATIONS FOUNDED AND BOARD MEMBERSHIPS
Board of Directors, Better Future Project, 2014-present. Vice-Chair, 2015. Chair, 2016present.
Chair, Board of Directors, US Right to Know, June 2014-present.
Founding Member and Secretary, Board of Directors, Center for a New American
Dream, 1995-2007. Co-Chair, Board of Directors, 2007-2011. Board Member 20112014. Emeritus Advisory Council, 2016-present.
Board of Directors, Commercial Alert, June 2004-2010.
Founder and Staff Economist, Center for Popular Economics, 1978-1990.
Founder and Editor, South End Press, Boston, MA 1977-1979.
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Editorial Board, Journal of Consumer Policy, 2015-present
Editorial Board, Reviews in Ecological Economics, 2011-present
Policy Board, Journal of Consumer Research, 2010-2013.
Editorial Board, Intervention: A Journal of Economics, 2003-present.
Editorial Board, Advertising and Society Review, 2001-present.
Editorial Board, Journal of Consumer Culture, 1999-present. (Deputy editor on
economics and environment)
Editorial Board, International Journal of Applied Economics, 1992-present.
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ADVISORY BOARDS
Advisory Board, The Law and Business of the Sharing Economy website, 2016-present.
Institute for Liberal Arts, Boston College, 2010-present.
One Earth Foundation, November 2010-present.
Media Education Foundation, June 2006-present.
Advisory Board, Project on “Work, Welfare, Work and Wealth for Europe,” Austrian
Institute of Economic Research, 2011-2016.
Senior Advisory Council, The Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow, January 2005-present.
Board of Advisers, Action Coalition for Media Education, Summer 2004-present.
International Advisory Board, Programme on Socio-Economic Security, International
Labor Organization, 1999-2005.
Advisory Board, Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 1997present.
Advisory Board, College and University Work/Family Association, 1995-1997.
Founding Board, PEGS (Committee on the Political Economy of the Good Society),
1994-present.
Advisory Board, Center for the Study of Commercialism, Washington, D.C., 1992-2000.
Research Advisory Council, Economic Policy Institute, September 1986-1995.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
Final Selection Committee, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University,
2015-2018.
ASA Representative to the organizing team, working on social sciences of the United
States Global Change Research Program, group 3, Drivers of Climate Change, 20162017.
Participant, Radcliffe Academic Ventures Seminar on The Sharing Economy, December
2016.
Chair, ASA Section on Consumers and Consumption, 2016-2017.
Reviewer, Dissertation Fellowship, Center for Engaged Scholarship, 2016
Scientific Committee, UNESCO Bernard Maris Economy and Society Chair, 2016.
Organizer, Regular Session on Consumers and Consumption, ASA meetings, 2016.
Workshop Participant, “Consumption and Social Change,” TELLUS Institute, October
2015.
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Workshop Participant, “Social Life of Climate Change,” Center for Advanced Studies in
the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, October 2015.
Chair-Elect, ASA Section on Consumers and Consumption, 2015-2016.
Participant, Open Society Foundation Convening on “The Future of Work,” New York,
April 2015.
Program Committee, ASA Consumers and Consumption Section Mini-conference,
Berkeley, CA, August 2014.
MIT Climate Co-Lab Consumption Contest Judge, 2014.
Organizer, Research Workshop for Graduate Students, CommonBound Conference, New
Economy Coalition, Northeastern University, Boston, June 2014.
Visiting Faculty, Bard MBA in Sustainability, May 2014.
Scientific Committee, 4th International DeGrowth Conference, Leipzig, September 2014.
Participant, Kickoff Event for Institute for New Economics Core Project Workshop, HM
Treasury, London, November 2013.
Founder and Organizer, Summer Institute on New Economics, Boston College, 2012present.
Chair, Graduate Student Paper Award Committee, Section on Consumers and
Consumption, ASA, 2013.
Member, Core Curriculum Renewal Team, Boston College, 2012-13.
Scientific Committee, 2013 SCORAI conference, Clark University, June 2013.
Organizer, Thematic Session on Consumer Utopias, ASA Annual Meeting, Denver 2012.
Contributor, Guardian Sustainable Business Pages, 2012-present.
Invited Participant, “Challenging Consumerism: Toward Living Well Sustainably,”
Conference, SCORAI/One Earth, University of British Columbia, March 2012.
Organizer, Practicing Plenitude Economy, Institute for Liberal Arts, Boston College,
October 2011.
Member, World Economics Association.
Member, MacArthur Foundation Connected Learning Research Network, 2010-present.
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Steering Group Member, Project on the 3Millenium Economy, 2010-present.
Chair, Steering Committee, Demos working group on “Beyond Consumerism, 2010present.
Member, New Economy Network Working Group, 2010-present.
Member, SCORAI Network on Sustainable Consumption, 2009-present.
American Sociology Association Representative to Journal of Consumer Research Policy
Board, 2010-2012.
Member, American Sociological Association Public Understanding of Sociology Award
Selection Committee, 2010-2012.
Organizer and Presider, Session on Gender and Consumption, Annual Meeting,
American Sociological Association, 2010.
Steering Committee, preparatory meetings for Rio + 20Sustainable Development
Division, United Nations, February 2010-present.
Co-Organizer and Presenter, Beyond Growth & Consumption: Emerging Visions
Conference, Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, Pocantico, NY, May 2009.
Rogers Fellowship, Phillips Andover Academy, Andover, MA, October 2008.
Organizing Committee, Consumer Research Studies Network Mini-Conference, Boston
College, August 2007-2008.
Organizer and Presider, Consumers and Consumption, Annual Meeting, American
Sociological Association, Boston, August 2008.
“The Paradox of Affluence,” Faculty Scholar Conference for Phi Theta Kappa National
Honors Study Topic, January 2008.
Research Scholar, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts,
March 2007-present.
Invited Participant, “New Economy Think Tank Conference,” Schumacher College,
Devon, UK, November 2007.
Invited Participant, “Toward a New Consciousness” Conference, Organized by Yale
University, Aspen, Colorado, October 2007.
Member, External Review Committee, Tufts Department of Sociology, October 2007.
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Guest Professor, Institute for Social Ecology, University of Klagenfeld, Vienna, Austria,
June 2006.
Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Iowa, October 2004.
Selection Committee, Ralph Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa, 2004.
Advisory Group, “The Work-Family-Community Nexus,” Sloan Foundation Research
Project, Harvard KSG and SPH.
Selection Committee, American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships, 2003-06.
Faculty, Whidbey Institute, Course on Challenging Globalization, August 2004.
Faculty, Schumacher College, England, Course on Challenging Globalization, July 2003,
2005.
Faculty, Teachers as Scholars Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2001present.
Editorial Collective, Critical Sociology Special Issue on Culture, Power and History,
2001-04.
Organizer and Presider, Consumers and Consuming, Sessions I and II, Annual Meeting,
American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 2002.
Co-Organizer, Working Conference of The Simplicity Forum, Fetzer Foundation, March
2002.
Master Class, Sociology Department, University of Antwerpen, Belgium, March 2002.
Visiting Professor Exchange, Advertising Education Foundation, July 2001.
Participant, Work, Family and Democracy Initiative, The Johnson Foundation, 2000-1.
Faculty, Schumacher College, England, July 1999.
Advisory Board, Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 1997present.
Consultant, United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report,
1997.
Visiting Scholar, Havens Center, University of Wisconsin, February-March 1996.
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Forum Fellow, World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, 1993, 1996.
European Commission Carrefour, participant, 1995, Lund, Sweden.
Non-Council Member, President's Council on Sustainable Development, Population and
Consumption Task Force, 1995.
U.S. Co-Chair, North American Network for Shorter Hours of Work, Fall 1994-1997.
Work and Family Advisory Committee, Harvard University, 1994-1999.
Board of Trustees, Wesleyan University, July 1988-June 1991.
Economic Columnist, Zeta magazine, December 1987-1991.
Research Affiliate, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, July 1986-July
1991.
REVIEWER ACTIVITY
(since 2005 only): American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology,
Journal of Economic Psychology, Social Problems, Journal of Consumer Culture,
Theory and Society, Theory, Culture and Society, Ecological Economics, Journal of
American Culture, Journal of Human Ecology, Sociological Forum, PNAS, New Media
and Society, Leverhume Trust, American Council of Learned Societies, Radcliffe
Institute for Advanced Studies, Institutes of Medicine, Center for Engaged Scholarship.
DOCUMENTARY FILM AND VIDEO APPEARANCES (selected)
Generation Wealth, 2017.
The People vs. America, Al-Jazeera multipart series, 2017.
Minimalism, 2016.
GrowthBusters, 2016.
AARP Saving Film, 2015.
UseLess, forthcoming
Shareconomy, forthcoming
Do I Need This, forthcoming
Monoculture, forthcoming
Resilience, forthcoming
Good Old Growth, 2015
Living with Plenitude, Trinity Wall Street, NY, 2015
Lauren Greenfield Retrospective, 2014
BBC Series on Consumer Culture, 2014.
New Economics 101, Media Education Foundation Film, 2013
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Do The Math, 350.org 2013
Money and Life, 2013
Hooked on Growth, 2010
Play Again, 2010
The Economics of Happiness, 2010
Shop ‘Til You Drop: The Crisis of Consumerism, 2010
Consume This Movie, 2009
Consuming Kids, 2008
How the Kids Took Over, 2007
Forgive Us Our Debts, 2004
The Overspent American, 2003
Occupation, 2002
Simple Living (PBS series), 2000
Escape from Affluenza, 1997
Affluenza, 1996
Running Out of Time, 1992
INVITED LECTURESHIPS AND KEYNOTE TALKS
“The gig economy is/is not revolutionizing the world of work,” Plenary panel Women’s
Forum, Deauville, November 2016.
“Getting to Plenitude.” Keynote Address, After Fossil Fuels: The Next Economy
conference, Oberlin, October 2016.
“Toward a New Economy: Time, Creativity and Community,” Pre-conference Plenary,
Building Good Economies Conference, Fordham University, April 2016.
“Uberification or Solidarity: Evidence from the Sharing Economy,” Invited Lecture,
Rhode Island School of Design, November 2015.
“Cooperation: the Solidarity of the Future,” Conference on We Not Me, the Food of All,
National Association of Consumer Cooperatives, Milan EXPO2015, July 2015.
“Sharing Economy and the Future of Work,” Spazio Lavoro Conference, Giangiacomo
Feltrinelli Foundation, Milan, June 2015.
“The sharing economy: hyper-capitalism or a sustainable alternative?” First International
Workshop on the Sharing Economy, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development,
Utrecht University, The Netherlands, June 2015.
“Homo Varians: Diverse Motives and Economic Behavior in the Sharing Economy,”
Sharing Economy and the Future of Money workshop, Mobile Life Center and SICS,
Stockholm, June 2015.
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“Reframing the Climate Discourse,” David M. Gordon Lecture, joint American
Economics Association/Union for Radical Political Economics Session, ASSA meetings,
January 2015.
“Toward a Clean Energy Future,” Mass Energy Annual Meeting, Keynote Speaker,
Cambridge, MA, November 2014.
“Work, Making and the Transition to a Sustainable Economy,” Jeff Farris, Jr. Endowed
Lecture, University of Central Arkansas, October 2014.
“The New Sharing Economy: paradoxes of openness and distinction,” SCORAI
Colloquium on Consumption and Social Change, Tellus Institute, Boston, October 2014.
“Time, Self-Provisioning, and Happiness,” Front Stage Series, Tennessee Tech
University, September 2014.
“Creating a Plenitude Economy: pathways to low-carbon, high satisfaction ways of
living,” Concordia College, Fargo, ND, September 2014.
“Inequality, Time and Climate Change: transition to a plenitude economy,” paper
presented at Conference on Critical Sociology, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main,
Frankfurt, June 2014.
“Getting to Plenitude: Building a Small-Scale, Low-Impact, High-Satisfaction
Economy," University of Dayton, April 2014.
“Plenitude: the new economics of sustainability,” Keynote Address, Second Annual
Symposium on Sustainability, Bucknell University, March 2014.
“The Plenitude Economy,” Sparks of the Future, Global Presencing Forum 2014, MIT,
February 2014.
“Getting to Plenitude: Building a Small-Scale, Low-Impact, High-Satisfaction
Economy," Howard B. Schonberger Peace and Social Justice Lecture, University of
Maine, November 2013.
“Plenitude: Toward a Sustainable Economy and the Good Life,” Carondelet Lecture,
Fontbonne University, St Louis, MO, October 2013.
“Sustainability Transitions and Economic Downturns: The Case of the US, 2008-2013,”
Keynote Address, Fourth International Conference on Sustainability Transitions, Zurich,
June 2013.
“Time, Self-Provisioning and Happiness,” Keynote Panel, SCORAI Conference, Clark
University, June 2013.
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“The emergence of a new economy,” Keynote, Youth Power Summit, Ithaca College,
April 2013.
“The emergence of a new economy,” Keynote, New Economy Summit, Clark University,
April 2013.
“Toward a new economy,” Endnote address, Summit on the New Economy, Appalachia
State University, Boone, NC, April 2013.
“Toward a new economy: time, creativity and community,” Carpenter Lecture, Babson
College, February 2013.
“Plenitude,” American Democracy Project 2013 Lecturer, SUNY Brockport, February
2013
“Happiness and Consumption,” Rome Science Festival, Rome Italy, January 2013
“Beyond 360 Growth” Plenary Session, Women’s Forum, Deauville, France, October
2012.
“Work and De-Growth,” International Conference on De-Growth in the Americas,
Montreal, May 2012.
“True Wealth: On-ramp to a new economy,” Keynote Speaker, Boston Building
Resources Annual Meeting, June 2012.
“Getting to Plenitude: Building a Small-Scale, Low-Impact, High-Satisfaction Economy”
Earth Day Conference, Nelson Institute, University of Wisconsin, April 2012.
“Gender and the Transition to Sustainability,” Invited Lecture, Providence College,
February 2012.
“Plenitude,” Illahee Lecture Series, Portland, OR, February 2012.
“Working Hours and Climate Change,” Climate, Mind and Behavior Conference,
Garrison Institute, February 2012.
“Working Hours and the De-Growth Movement,” University of the Dauphine, Paris,
January 13, 2012.
“About Time: Examining the case for a shorter working week,” Public Lecture, London
School of Economics, January 11, 2012.
“Toward a Plenitude Economy,” 31st Annual Invited E.F. Schumacher Lecture, New
York, NY, November 5, 2011.
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“Plenitude,” Annual Symposium, “What Sustains Us?” Keene St College, New
Hampshire, Nov 2, 2011.
“Working Time and Sustainability,” RESOLVE Conference, London, June 2011.
“Plenitude: Exit Ramp to Sustainability,” Keynote Address, Second Annual Conference,
Princeton, NJ, April 2011.
“Plenitude: the new economics of true wealth,” Hearst Lectureship, University of
Northern Iowa, April 2011.
“Plenitude: Transition to a Sustainable Economy,” Michigan Law School Environmental
Law and Policy Program, January 2011.
“What We Are Like: Consumerism in Contemporary Context” Keynote address at
“Setting the course: paths to sustainable ways of life “Symposium, Denkwerk Zukunft
Foundation for cultural renewal, Berlin, January 2011.
“Plenitude and Business as Social Innovation,” Keynote Address, Doing Good and Doing
Well Conference, IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain, February 2011.
“Consumption and Sustainability: Toward the Plenitude Economy,” College of
Charleston, Invited Lecture, November 2010.
“Work, Family and the Plenitude Economy,” Keynote Address, Balanced Lives
Symposium, University of Iowa, Public Policy Center, October 2010.
“Plenitude,” Invited Lecture, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota,
October 2010.
“Plenitude: envisioning a sustainable economy,” Keynote, Kick-Off Conference for C2C,
Williams College, Environmental Studies Program, September 2010.
“Plenitude: toward a sustainable economy,” Annual SSRC Lecture, University of
Galway, Galway, Ireland, June 2010.
“From Ecocide to Plenitude,” Pitzer College, Center for Social Inquiry,” April 2010.
“Addressing the twin crises: from austerity to plenitude,” McAuley Lecture, St. Joseph’s
College, Connecticut, April 2010.
“Plenitude and Consumer Culture,” Denison University, February 2010.
“Macroeconomic Conditions for Sustainability,” Growth in Transition, Austria LIFE
ministry conference, January 2010.
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“Social Behavior and the Transition to Sustainability,” Herbert Spencer Lecture, Oxford
University, March 2009.
“Fast Fashion: A Macro-Materialist Analysis of US Consumption, 1998-2005,”
Manchester University, Center for Sustainable Consumption, March 2009.
“Consumer Culture and Greed,” Conversation with Davie Loy, Aurora Forum, Stanford
University, December 2008.
“Sustainable Consumption,” Phillips Andover Academy, October 2008.
“The Paradox of Affluence,” Keynote Address, National Conference on Honors Study
Topic, Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society, San Francisco State University, June 2008.
“Achieving Sustainability: Macro Trends,” Keynote Address to BALLE Annual
Conference, Boston University, June 2008.
“Acting Sustainably in a Consumer Culture,” Gustavus Adolphus College, Public
Lecture, April 2008.
“Getting to Sustainability: Work, Consumption and Everyday Life,” Annual Synoptic
Lecturer, Grand Valley State University, Grand Valley, Michigan, April 2008.
“Shop Til You Drop,” Public Lecture, Curry College Sociology Department, April 2008.
“Why We Buy,” Illahee Lecture Series, Portland, Oregon, February 2008.
“The Good Life or the Goods Life,” Keynote Address, Conference on What’s the
Economy For Anyway? Washington, DC, October 2007.
“Consumer-Topia: Envisioning a New Consumer,” Plenary Session on Real Utopias,
ASA, New York, August 2007.
“Sustainable Living,” Keynote Panel, Sustainable Consumption Conference, University
of Florida, April 2007.
“Mainstreaming Green Consumption,” Farajollah and Maryam Badie Arfaa Lecture
Series in Architecture, Drexel University, Philadelphia, April 2007.
“The Social Death of Things,” Fritz Nova Invited Lecture, Department of Sociology,
Villanova University, Philadelpha, April 2007.
“Sociology and Consumption,” Friedson Lecture, Department of Sociology, New York
University, March 2007.
“Asking the Big Questions,” Keynote Panel, Frontiers in Qualitative Sociology: Berkeley
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Sociologists in the World, Conference in Honor of Arlie Hochschild, Department of
Sociology, University of California at Berkeley, October 2006.
“Spending Nation: Consumerism and the Future of Liberal Values,” Hays and Margaret
Crimmel Colloquium Lecture, St. Lawrence University, September 2006.
“Do Americans Shop Too Much?” Frances Asbury Palmer Lecture, First Presbyterian
Church and Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pa, April 17, 2006.
“Fashion and Consumer Culture,” Convocation Address, Fashion Institute of
Technology, New York, January 2006.
“Childhood, Commercialization and Popular Culture,” Seminar on Popular Culture, Phi
Theta Kappa, Jackson, MS, November 2005.
“Children, Market and Culture,” Gamble Lecture, University of Massachusetts
Department of Economics, Amherst, MA, November 2005.
“Reclaiming Our Kids: Countering the Commercialization of Childhood,” Plenary
Speaker, Bioneers by the Bay: Connecting for Change, First Annual Northeast Bioneers
Conference, October 2005.
“Consumer Culture and Well-Being: A Survey of Fifth and Sixth Grade Students,”
President’s Invited Address, New England Psychological Association Annual Meetings,
New Haven, October 2005.
“Children and Consumer Culture,” Shannon Weatherly Annual Lecture, Montana State
University, October 2005.
“Consumer Culture: Shoppers’ Paradise or Consumers’ Nightmare,” Address to
Freshman Seminars, College of Liberal Studies, Montana State University, October 2005.
“The Commercialization of Childhood,” St. Scholastica College, September 2005.
“Consumer Involvement and At-Risk Children,” Keynote Address, Bring Back the
Kitchen Table, First Annual Charter Schools’ Parent Conference, Rutgers University,
New Jersey, June 11, 2005.
“Work in the Global Economy,” Chautauqua Institute, Chautauqua, New York, July
2005.
“How Media Exposure Affects Children’s Well-Being,” Keynote Address, Northeast
Media Literacy Conference, University of Connecticut, April 2005.
“Commercialism and Public Education,” Keynote Address, Not for Sale Conference on
Public Education, British Columbia Teachers Conference, Vancouver, February 2005.
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“The Commercialization of Childhood,” Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Lecture,
University of Iowa, October 2004.
“Children’s Play in a Commercial Culture,” Playing for Keeps Annual Conference,
Washington, D.C., October 2004.
“The Commercialization of Childhood: Are We Doing Our Children Justice?” Keynote
Address, Madison Civics Club, Madison, Wisconsin, May 2004.
“Economics and Consumer Culture,” Gordon Hall Inaugural Lecture Series, Political
Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, March 2004.
“Politicizing Sustainability: Why Achieving Ecological Balance Requires
Economic and Geo-Political Transformation,” Opening Keynote Address, Sixth Nordic
Conference on Environmental Social Sciences, Turku/Abo, Finland, June 2003.
“Sustainable Consumption and American Imperialism,” Keynote Address, US Ecological
Economics Association, Saratoga, NY, May 2003.
“Living Sustainably: Solutions for the 21st Century,” Opening Keynote Address,
Sustainable Portland Conference, May 2003.
“The Commodification of Childhood: Tales from the Advertising Front Lines,”
Colloquium on the Commodification of Everything, Institute for Advanced Studies in
Culture, University of Virginia, February 2003.
"Sustainable Consumption and Worktime Reduction," Fifth Annual Kurt W. Rothschild
Annual Lecture, University of Linz, Austria, November 2002.
"Understanding the New Consumerism: Inequality, Emulation, and the Erosion of WellBeing" Invited Lecture, Flemish Sociological Association, University of Antwerpen,
Belgium, March 2002.
“Why Do We Consume So Much?” Thirteenth Annual Clemens Lecture, St. John’s
College, Minnesota, October 2001.
“Beyond the New Consumerism: Fostering Environmentally Sustainable Lifestyles,”
George Link Jr. Environmental Awareness Lecture, Dartmouth University, May 2001.
Keynote Address, First Women’s Conference, Newton Commission for Women, Boston
College, March 2001.
“Toward a Sustainable Environment: The Strategy of Worktime Reduction,” Keynote
Address, Berkeley Journal of Sociology Conference on Work, March 2001.
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Keynote Address, Conference entitled Beyond Consumerism: Toward a Transformational
Politics, Boston Research Center, Cambridge, MA, March 2001.
“Academic Women and the Time Squeeze,” Keynote Address, Sixth Annual Conference,
College and University Work/Family Association (CUWFA) University of Arizona,
Tucson, March 2001.
“The Unexpected Decline of Leisure,” Kansas City Public Library Invited Lecture,
February 2001.
“The Overspent American,” Sidore Lecture, Plymouth State College, New Hampshire,
November 2000.
“Beyond an Economy of Work and Spend,” Liberal Arts and Sciences Centennial
Scholar Invited Lecture, DePaul University, November 2000.
“The New Consumerism,” Annual Conference of Responsible Wealth, Boston, April
2000.
“Negotiating the Consumer Culture: Children and Parents,” Sloan/Berkeley/BRWF
Sponsored Conference on “Work and Family: Expanding the Horizons,” San Francisco,
March 2000.
“The Overworked American,” College-Wide Lecture, Swarthmore College, October
1999.
“Time, for a Change: Transforming the Structures of Everyday Life,” Keynote Address at
Duke University Women’s Studies Conference 24/7Rest and Unrest, October 1999.
Graduation Address, Radcliffe Seminars, Radcliffe College, June 1999.
“Time and Money: Households Under Pressure,” Keynote address at Radcliffe Public
Policy Institute/Ford Foundation, Work and Life 2000 Roundtable, New York City, May,
1999.
Millenium-Tage Conference, Kassel Germany, 1998.
"The Overspent American," Arts and Humanities Lecture Series, Framingham State
College, 1998.
"Beyond an Economy of Work and Spend," Inaugural Oratie, Tilburg University, 1997.
"The Overspent American," Boston College Humanities Series/Lowell Lecture, 1998.
“Beyond Work and Spend," New Strategies for Everyday Life Conference, Tilburg
University, 1996.
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"The Increasing Pace of Life," Doors of Perception 4, Netherlands Design Institute, 1996.
"Beyond work and spend: time, leisure and consumerism," Conference on Leisure, Time,
and Space in a Transitory Society, Leisure Studies Association and Vereniging van de
Vrijtijdssector, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 1996.
"The Overworked American," Sheffield Hallam University, 1996.
"Toward a New Consumer: how can consumers change to make their lifestyle more
sustainable?" Congress on Industrial Ecology, Tilburg University, 1996.
"Rethinking Consumer Society," Eighth Annual Mason Library Honors Lecture, Keene
State College, New Hampshire, 1996.
"Work, Time and Consumption," Conference on Our Time Famine, University of Iowa,
1996.
"Utopias of Women's Time," Festival of Utopias, Tilburg University, 1996.
"Time, Work and Money: Escaping the Cycle of Work and Spend," Special Lecture of
American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, 1995.
"Women and Leisure," Conference on "Women and Leisure: Towards a New
Understanding," University of Georgia, 1995.
"Rethinking Consumer Society" First Annual William Weiss Lecture in Economics,
Skidmore College, 1995.
"New Patterns of Work, Family, Time and Consumption for the Twenty-First Century,"
Second National Conference on Work/Life Issues, Northeastern University, 1995.
"The Overworked American," Hull Memorial Lecture, Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
1994.
"Time, Work and Money," Distinguished Lecture Series, Nazareth College, Rochester,
1994.
"Work, Leisure and Unemployment," Conference on the "Unexpected Decline of
Leisure," Tilburg University, 1994.
"Stakeholder Dialogue," Graduate School of Business, University of St. Thomas, 1994.
"Work, Consumption and the Quality of Life," Theodore M. Marburg Memorial Lecture,
Marquette University, 1994.
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"Amending the Fair Labor Standards Act," Piper Memorial Lecture, Chicago-Kent
College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1994.
"Work, Consumption and the Quality of Life," Hogendorn Lecture, Wesleyan University,
1994.
"Work and Leisure in Contemporary America," Governor's Conference on Tourism,
Florida, 1994.
"Beyond Work and Spend: New Choices for the Twenty-First Century," Annual
Induction Ceremony, Economics Honor Society, Providence College, 1994.
"Theoretical Considerations on the Determination of Working Hours," Twenty-fifth
Anniversary Conference, Institute for Fundamental Political Economy, Kansai
University, Osaka, 1993, (published in Journal of Political Economy, #76, May 1994).
"Economic Discourse and the Quality of Life," Debs-Thomas-Bernstein Award Dinner,
Boston, 1993.
Men, Women and Work: Times Are Changing," Jesse Daniel Ames Lecture Series,
Southwestern University, 1993.
"The Overworked American," Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series, University of
Dayton, 1993.
"Reflections on The Overworked American," Lou Douglas Lecture Series, Kansas State
University, 1992.
Conference on "Working Wonders: Women's Personal, Professional and Public Roles,"
Radcliffe College, 1992.
"The Overworked American: Implications for Recreation Professionals," National
Recreation and Parks Association Annual Meeting, 1992.
“The Overworked American," Annual Conference, Human Resources Management
Association of Chicago, 1992.
Commencement Address, Winchester-Thurston School for Girls, Pittsburgh,1992.
PRESENTED PAPERS AND TALKS
“Environmental Impacts of the Sharing Economy: the case of Airbnb,” Workshop on the
Energy and Environmental Impacts of the Sharing Economy, Environmental Law
Institute, Washington, D.C., April 2017.
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“Inverting the Field,” BU Sociology Seminar, April 2017.
“Can Minimalism Create Sustainability?” Boston Area Sustainability Group, CIC
Venture Café, Cambridge, MA, April 2017.
“Can Marketing Make a Difference?” Yale Symposium on Consumers and Consumption,
March 2017.
“Consumption in the Anthropocene,” Rethinking Economic History in the Anthropocene
Workshop, Boston College, March 2017.
“Climate and Working Hours,” Session on Climate Change, Eastern Sociological
Association Meetings, Philadelphia, February 2017.
“Ethical Consumption,” Eastern Sociological Association Meetings, Philadelphia,
February 2017.
Money Talks, Author Meets Critics Session, Eastern Sociological Association Meetings,
Philadelphia, February 2017.
“Inequality and Precarity in the Platform Economy,” Digital Initiative Seminar, Harvard
Business School, February 2017.
“Dependency and Precarity in the Platform Economy,” CUNY Sociology Department,
New York, February 2017.
“Christmas, Consumerism, and Laudato Si,” Panelist for Global Catholic Climate Change
Movement Webinar, December 2016.
“Practicing the community-based new economy,” Women’s Forum, Deauville,
November 2016.
“Ecology, Religion and Ethics: The Role of Religion and Ecology,” Religion, Ecology
and Our Planetary Future, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University,
October 2016.
“Regenerative Capitalism and Climate Chaos,” Conversation with John Fullerton, After
Fossil Fuels: The Next Economy conference, Oberlin, October 2016.
“Author Meets Critics: Judith Wacjman, Pressed for Time, Annual Meeting, American
Sociological Association, Seattle, August 2016.
"De-growth and hours reductions: a necessary mitigation policy or progressive fantasy?,"
Panel session at Annual Meeting, SSSP, Seattle, August 2016.
“Who Gets to Share in the “Sharing Economy: Understanding the Patterns of
Participation and Exchange in Airbnb,” (with Mehmet Cansoy), Conference on Open and
User Innovation, Harvard Business School, August 2016.
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“Tales from the Sharing Economy,” Beyond the Basics Conference, Institute for Career
Transitions, MIT, May 2016.
“Tales from the Sharing Economy,” Radcliffe Event, Harvard Faculty Club, New York,
May 2016.”
“Homo Varians: Diverse Economic Behaviors on Sharing Platforms,” Berkman Center
on Internet and Society, Harvard University, April 2016.
“Why Do We Consume So Much,” Invited Lecture, Riverdale Country Day School, New
York, April 2016.
“Author Meets Critics: Victor Chen, Cut Loose,” Eastern Sociological Society, Annual
Meeting, March 2016.
“Beyond Sanders and Clinton: Visionary Futures for Democratic Economics,” panel
member, Harvard Law School, February 18, 2016.
“Time, Work and Community in a New Economy: Possibilities for Creative
Professionals,” New England Conservatory, Music in 2050 Series, February 2016.
“Eco-habitus and the Platform Economy,” presentation to Workshop on Democratizing
the Green City, New York University, January 2016.
“Remarks on the Occasion of the Inauguration of the Bernard Maris UNESCO Chair in
Economy Society,” Paris Hotel De Ville, Salon d’Honneur, January 2016.
“Paradoxes of Openness and Distinction in the Sharing Economy,” Microsoft Research
Colloquium, Cambridge, MA, December 2015.
“The Sharing Economy: a qualitative study of providers on for-profit platforms,” Federal
Reserve Board, Division of Consumer Economics, December 2015.
“Mud Huts and De-Growth,” American Anthropological Association Meetings, Session
on De-Growth, Denver, November 2015.
“Why We Should Divest from Fossil-Fuels,” Divestment Panel, Stonehill College,
November 2015.
“Lessons for Platform Cooperativism,” Platform Cooperativism Conference, New School
for Social Research, November 2015.
Panelist, “What Sustainable Consumption Means to Cities,” US Sustainability Directors
Network Conference,” Minneapolis, October 2015 (via skype).
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“Perspectives on the Sharing Economy,” Paper presentation at SCORAI Workshop on
Consumption and Social Change, TELLUS Institute, October 2015.
“Promoting Economic Alternatives via Public Sociology,” ASA Session, Section on
Sociological Practice and Public Sociology,” Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 2015.
“Debating the Sharing Economy,” OIKOS Think Thank, Antwerpen, Belguim, June
2015.
“Situating the Ethical Consumer: individual action and systemic change” Consumption
Ethics in Society Seminar, ESRC Project on Ethics in Consumption: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives, University of Leicester, June 2015.
Panelist, “Baseball and American Life,” The Great Fenway Park Writers Series, Fenway
Park, Boston, May 19, 2015.
Q&A, Climate Change Action Event, United Nations, ECOSOC, sponsored by French
mission to the UN, after showing of the film, Good Old Growth, April 2015.
“Promoting Economic Alternatives via Public Sociology,” Invited Session entitled
Disseminating Research Beyond the Academy, American Sociological Association
Meetings, Chicago, 2015.
“Setting the Research Agenda,” Remarks to The Next System Project Meeting, MIT
Media Lab, DUSP/MIT, December 2014.
“Paradoxes of Openness and Distinction in the Sharing Economy,” Harvard/MIT
Economic Sociology Seminar, November 2014.
“Your Next Big Startup Idea: Why Internet Policy Matters,” Roundtable participant,
Internet Policy Symposium, Harvard Institute of Politics and Berkman Center, September
2014.
“Handmade Matters, (Re)Imagining ‘Homemade’ Food at the Boundaries of Food Swap
Circuits,” Paper presented at ASA, Session on Consumers and Consumption, San
Francisco, August 2014 (with Connor Fitzmaurice).
“Can Market Based Alternatives Be Transformative? Plenitude, Participatory Markets
and Rhizomatic Resistance,” ASA, Session on Consumers and Consumption, San
Francisco, August 2014.
A Deeper Look at the Limits to Growth, New Economy Transitions webinar, Institute for
Policy Studies, Washington, D.C., June 2014.
“New Ways of Living in a Climate Constrained World,” 41st annual Lonergan
Workshop, Boston College, June 2014.
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“The Sharing Economy,” Panel Discussion, CommonBound Conference, New Economy
Coalition, Northeastern University, June 2014.
“Who’s a Sharer?” Panel discussion, SHARE Conference, San Francisco, May 2014
“The Sharing Economy: Paradoxes of Openness and Distinction,” Colloquium, Sociology
Department, Northwestern University, April 2014.
“Sharing Platforms,” Wesleyan Thinks Big Event, Boston, MA, March 2014.
“Media Literacy in the Digital Age,” Panel Discussion, Digital Media and Learning
Conference, Boston, March 2014.
“Connected Learning in Spaces and Sites of the Connected Economy,” Panel Discussion,
Digital Media and Learning Conference, Boston, March 2014.
“Working Hours and Climate Change,” Department of Economics, University of Utah,
February 2014.
“Collaborative Consumption Lab,” Global Presencing Forum 2014, MIT, February 2014.
“The Sharing Economy,” Sharing Economy Conference, Boston Accelerator, December
2013.
"Evolving Away from Capitalism: Market Dependence, Participation, and the Sharing
Economy," Socialist and Marxist Studies Series, University of Maine, November, 2013.
“Consumption and Planetary Boundaries,” Workshop on INET Core Curriculum Project,
HMS Treasury, London, November, 2013.
“Reimagining America: An Evening with Gus Speth and Juliet Schor,” Etsy and Center
for a New American Dream, Brooklyn, NY, November 2013.
“How Will A Carbon Tax Change Our Life?” Marfa Dialogues, Carbon Tax Center, New
York City, NY, November 2013.
“Discussant,” ASA, Session on Social Movements, Corporations and Consumption,”
New York, August 2013.
“An emerging eco-habitus: the reconfiguration of high cultural capital practices among
ethical consumers,” ASA, Session on Consumers and Consumption, New York, August
2013.
“New Cultures of Consumption in a Boston Time Bank,” ASA, Session on Consumers
and Consumption, New York, August 2013.
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“Making a Living in a New Economy,” ReRoute: Building Youth and Student Power for
a New Economy, New York University, July 2013.
“An emerging eco-habitus: the reconfiguration of high cultural capital practices among
ethical consumers,” SCORAI Conference, Clark University, June 2013.
“Ecology and Time in the Crisis of Work,” Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Work
Conference, University of Chicago, April 2013.
“Practical steps for reducing hours of work,” New Economics Institute Conference,
University of British Columbia, April 2013.
“Principles of New Economics,” Funders’ Call for Working Group on New Economics,
April 2013.
“New models of production and consumption,” MIT New Economics Discussion Series,
April 2013.
“New Economics,” Conference on Re-imagining Our Economic System, Michigan State
University, March 2013.
“Understanding Sustainable Consumption,” Annual Press Conference, BMW, Munich,
Germany, March 2013
“What social science has learned about responses to climate change,” Harvard Committee
on Divestment from Fossil Fuels, Harvard University, March 2013.
“Can reduced working hours reduce environmental pressure?” Economics Department
Seminar, University of Massachusetts, February 2013.
“Equity and Connected Learning,” MacArthur Foundation Connected Learning Initiative
Webinar, February, 2013.
“True Wealth,” U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Webinar, December 2012.
“Consumption and the New Sharing Economy,” MacArthur Foundation Connected
Learning Initiative Webinar, December 2012.
“The Emergence of New Economics,” Presentation to Garfield Foundation Board,
Pasadena, CA, November 2012.
“Can Working Hours Reductions Reduce Pressure on the Environment” College-Wide
Lecture, University of Maryland, October 2012.
“Worktime and Sustainability,” Talk to Center for Corporate Citizenship, October 2012.
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“Connected Consumption: The New Movement to Share, Conserve and Connect,” ASA
Thematic Session, Denver, August 2012.
“Discussant,” ASA Paper session on Consumption and Inequality, Denver, August 2012.
Spotlight Panel Participant, Mini-conference on Globalization and Consumption, ASA
Consumption Section-in-Formation, University of Denver, August 2012.
“True Wealth,” Public Lecture sponsored by Smith College Department of Sociology and
Media Education Foundation, Northampton, MA, July 2012.
Ethics and Connected Consumption,” presentation to Workshop on The Ethical
Component of Sustainability: Applications to Firms and Public Policies,” U Pontificia
Comillas, Madrid, July 2012.
“Strategies for Going Green,” Luncheon Talk to Boston College Librarians Group, April
2012.
“Working Hours and Next Left,” Conference on the Next Left: Building New
Communities,” Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, April 2012.
“Plenitude,” Transition to a New Economy Conference, Harvard University, March 2012.
“Plenitude: the pathway to sustainability,” Mellon Fellows Seminar and Public Talk,
Brown University, February 2012.
“Working Hours and De-Growth,” Workshop to etopia, Brussel, January 14, 2012.
“Working Hours in the Debate about Growth and Sustainability,” new economics
foundation conference, Towards 21 Hours: Setting the Agenda for a Shorter Working
Week, London School of Economics, January 12, 2012.
“Economics for the 99%,” Harvard University Occupy Teach-in, November 7, 2011.
“Consumption and Sustainability,” EPA Webinar, region 10, Nov 1, 2011.
“Sharing and Caring: New Consumer Practices in a Digital Age,” Practicing Plenitude
Conference, Boston College, October 2011.
“Practicing Plenitude,” Presentation to the board of the Center for Humans and Nature,
Chicago, October 2011.
“Building the Plenitude Economy,” Sustainable Belmont Lecture Series, Belmont Hill
School, Belmont, Mass, October 2011.
“Work Hours, Consumption, and Climate Change: A Cross-National Panel Analysis of
OECD Countries, 1970-2007,” at Capitalism on Trial, PERI, UMass, October 2011
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“Connected Consumption,” Talk to Guggenheim/BMW Lab, New York, October 2011.
“True Wealth,” A Conversation about Sustainable Progress, Demos/World Policy
Institute, New York, October 2011.
“Accelerating Sustainable Production and Consumption,” Panel Presentation to Funders’
Group on Sustainable Production and Consumption, Airlie House, VA, May 2011.
“Plenitude and the Sustainable Economy,” Cary Lecture Series, Lexington, MA, April
2010.
“True Wealth,” Newton Green Decade/Public Library Talk, Newton, MA, April 2011.
Author Meets Critics Session on Plenitude, Eastern Sociological Association Meetings,
Philadelphia, February 2011.
“Teaching Sustainability,” Presentation to Faculty Workshop on Teaching Sustainability,
Boston College, January 2011.
“Plenitude and Social Change,” Jamaica Plain Forum, Boston, December 2010.
“Plenitude,” A&S Dean’s Colloquium, Boston College, November 2010.
“Moving beyond the traditional environmental movement,” Pricing Carbon Conference,
Wesleyan University, November 2010.
“The recession and the midterm elections,” Panel member, Americans for Democratic
Action Education Fund conference, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University,
November 2010.
“Plenitude and the Open-Source Hardware Movement,” Berkman Center on Internet and
Society, Harvard University, November 2010.
“Plenitude,” Winston Forum on Business Ethics, Boston College, October 2010.
“Consumerism and Ecological Economics,” Progressive Caucus Speaker Series, Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University, October 2010.
“Plenitude,” Boston Book Festival, October 2010.
“Conscious Consumption and Political Activism,” University of Minnesota Sociology
Department Seminar, October 2010.
“Plenitude: toward an ethical economy,” Ethical Culture Society talk, Cambridge, MA,
September 2010.
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“Plenitude,” RiverRun Bookstore/Seacoast Local Event, Portsmouth, NH, September
2010.
“Plenitude,” TELLUS/SCORAI Seminar Series, Boston, MA, September 2010.
“Sustainable Consumption,” Expert Workshop, National University of Ireland/Galway,
Galway, Ireland, June 2010.
“Consumption and Growth,” No-Growth Roundtable, Pugwash Society, York University,
May 2010.
“Plenitude,” ILLAHEE/Powell’s/Natural Step Lecture, Portland, May 2010.
“Plenitude,” Town Hall Lecture Series, Seattle, May 2010.
“Plenitude,” Author’s Series, Harvard Book Store, May 2010.
“Plenitude,” David Suzuki Foundation, Toronto, May 2010.
“Plenitude: Economics for an Ecological Age,” Session on Environmental Justice and the
Current Economic Crisis, Eastern Sociology Society Annual Meetings, Boston, March
2010.
“The Engaged Economist,” Session on Public Sociology and the Classroom, Eastern
Sociology Society Annual Meetings, Boston, March 2010.
“Consuming Consciously: Analyzing the Buying Green Phenomenon." Yale Sociology
Department Colloquium, February 2010.
“Shorter Working Hours and Sustainability,” Panel Presentation at launch of
Transforming Cultures: The State of the World 2010, Worldwatch Institute, Washington,
D.C., January 2010.
“Discussant,” Culture Theory Seminar, Harvard University, December 2009.
“Colossal Failure: The Output Bias of Market Economies”, Conference on the Free
Market Mindset, Project on Law and Mind Sciences, Harvard Law School, March 2009.
“US Lifestyles and Macro Sustainability,” Conference on Nature as a Force, Jesuit
Institute, Boston College, February 2009.
“The Overspent American,” Feed Your Mind Speaker Series, California State University
at Northridge, February 2009.
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“Coming to Grips with Sustainability: Where Do We Go From Here?” American
Meteorological Society Environmental Science Seminar Series, Senate Office Building,
Washington D.C., January 2009.
“The Expansion of Fast-Fashion: A Macro-Material Analysis of Trends in US
Consumption, 1998-2005,” University of Massachusetts Economics Department,
December 2008.
“The Expansion of Fast-Fashion: A Macro-Material Analysis of Trends in US
Consumption, 1998-2005,” Presented at ASA thematic session on production and
consumption, Boston, July 2008.
“Solutions for a Climate-Friendly Economy,” invited presentation to Al Gore at Summit
on Solutions to the Climate Crisis, Nashville, TN, May 2008.
“Consumption and Sustainability: The Social Death of Things,” Sociology Department,
University of Minnesota, April 2008.
“Advertising and Ethical Practice,” Seminar, Wieden + Kennedy Agency, Portland,
Oregon, February 2008.
“Consumption and Sustainability,” Seminar, Portland State University, February 2008.
“The Commercialization of Childhood,” Lecture, Thurston Middle School, Westwood,
MA, October 2007.
“The Future of Consumer Studies,” Panel Presentation, Mini-Conference on Consumer
Studies, Barnard College, August 10, 2007.
“Getting to Sustainability: The Macro Context,” Sustainable Business Network, Boston,
MA, May 2007.
“Consumer Culture: The New Childhood Risk Factor,” Community Change, Inc, Suffolk
University Law School, May 2007.
“The Commodification of Childhood,” Teachers as Scholars Seminar, Harvard Hillel,
May 2007.
“Emerging Consumer Lifestyles,” Talk to Harvard Graduate School of Design Alumni
Education Program, April 2007.
“Globalization and Poverty,” Moderator, Opening Panel, Conference on Re-Thinking
Development, Dag Hammarskold Foundation/University of Southern New Hampshire,
April 2007.
“Consumerism and Childhood,” Angier School, Newton, MA, March 2007.
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“Sustainability and the New American Dream: A Case Study,” Organizational Studies
Seminar, CSOM, Boston College, February 2007.
“Consumerism and Childhood,” Dinner Speech, Newton Schools Foundation, February
2007.
“Is Growth Sustainable?” Taproots Colloquium, Center for Community Change, Robert
F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University, December 2006.
“Trends in the Commercialization of Childhood,” Seminar presented at National
Consumers Council, London, November 2006.
“Theoretical Issues in the Commercialization of Childhood,” Paper presented at Seminar
on the History of Childhood, Magdalen College, Oxford University, November 2006.
“The Commercialization of Childhood: Debates about Marketing,” Invited Lecture,
Department of Marketing, Said Business School, Oxford University and Royal Society of
the Arts, November 2006.
“In Defense of Consumer Critique,” Highlighted Paper, Conference on The Politics of
Consumption and the Consumption of Politics, University of Wisconsin at Madison,
October 2006.
“Galbraith and the Sovereign Consumer,” Conference on John Kenneth Galbraith and
the Future of Liberalism, Kennedy School of Government and Department of Economics,
Harvard University, October 2006.
“In Praise of Consumer Critics,” American Sociological Association, Annual Meetings,
Session on Consumption and Consumers, August 2006.
“Consumption in a Global Context,” Seminar, Institute for Social Ecology, Vienna, June
14, 2006.
“Worktime Reduction and Sustainable Consumption, Public Lecture, Institute for Social
Ecology, Vienna, June 12, 2006.
“Commercialized Childhood and the Politics of Protection,” Presentation to Conference
on “What’s Wrong with America?” STS Program, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 26, 2006.
“Conscious Consuming,” Panel, Boston College Department of Sociology, May 3, 2006.
“Children and The Commercial Culture,” Sudbury Middle School, Sudbury, Mass, March
29, 2006.
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“The Commercialization of Childhood,” WESeminar, Weslyean University, May 27,
2006.
“American Consumer Culture: Paradise or Nightmare,” Western Illinois University,
Lecture to Freshman Class, March 2006.
“The Social Death of Stuff,” Eastern Sociological Association, Annual Meetings, Session
on Place, February 2006.
“Children and Consumer Culture,” Tufts University Department of Sociology, February
2006.
“John Kenneth Galbraith and the Economics of Consumption,” Panel on Galbraith,
American Economics Association Annual Meetings, January 2006.
“How Consumer Culture is Affecting Quality of Life for Children,” Shady Hill School,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 2005.
“Children, Materialism and Consumer Culture,” Parents Council of Greater Baltimore,
November 2005.
“Take Back Your Time,” Lecture for Women’s and Gender Studies Program,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, October 2005.
“Children, Materialism and Consumer Culture,” Children’s Museum, Oak Grove, Illinois,
October 2005.
“How Consumer Culture is Affecting Quality of Life for Children,” North Shore Parents’
Forum, Massachusetts, October 2005.
“The Lighthouse Campaign: The Challenging Task of Culture Change,” Workshop
Presented at Bioneers by the Bay: Connecting for Change, First Annual Northeast
Bioneers Conference, October 2005.
“Children, Materialism, and the Quality of Life,” Church of the Redeemer, Newton, MA,
September 2005.
Panel on Children and Environment, American Museum of Natural History, Center on
Conservation and Biodiversity, New York, September 22, 2005.
“Economic Justice and Cultural Creatives: Two Movements in Search of a Marriage”
Seminar to the Center for Cultural Change, Washington, DC, June 2005.
Wellness Workshop on Media and Consumer Culture, Weston Public Schools, Regis
College, June 2005.
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Experts Dinner, KidPower Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida, May 2005.
“Women and Pay Equity,” Boston College Law School Women’s Leadership Club,
Newton, Mass, April 2005.
Panel Discussion on Teasing and Bullying, Runckle School, Brookline, Massachusetts,
April 2005.
“When Childhood is Commercialized Can Children Be Protected?” Yale Law School
Legal Theory Workshop, March 31, 2004.
Author Meets Critics Session, with Sharon Zukin, Eastern Sociological Association,
Washington, DC, March 2005.
Panel on Viviana Zelizer’s “Pricing the Priceless Child,” Eastern Sociological
Association, Washington, DC, March 2005.
“How Consumer Culture Affects Children’s Well-Being,” Annual Conference, Campaign
for Commercial Free Childhood, Howard University, March 2005.
“Junk Food Marketing and Children’s Well-Being,” Seminar to Friedman School of
Food and Nutrition, Tufts University, March 2, 2005
”Born to Buy,” City Club of San Diego/Catfish Club, January 2005.
“Born to Buy,” The Denver Forum, January 2005.
“Ethics and Marketing to Children,” Townhall Debate, Kidscreen Conference, New York
City, February 2005.
“Children and Advertising,” Sunday Forum, Trinity Church, Boston, December 12, 2004.
“Children and Consumer Culture,” Sidwell Friends School, Washington, DC, November
30, 2004.
“Born to Buy,” Writers Among Us, Boston College Writers Series, November 17, 2004.
“Born to Buy,” Miami Book Fair, Miami, FL, November 14, 2004.
“Responding to Commercialized Childhood,” Workshop to National Association of
Independent Schools, New York, October 25, 2004.
“Materialism and Well-Being,” Faith on Tap Series, Trinity Church, October 4, 2004.
“Poor Children and the Commercialization of Childhood,” Academic Salon Program,
Seattle University, September 28, 2004.
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“Born to Buy,” Public Lecture, organized by Northwest Earth Institute, Portland, Oregon,
September 27, 2004.
“Born to Buy,” Book Event sponsored by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Carnegie Music Hall,
Pittsburgh, September 19, 2004
“Born to Buy,” Public Forum sponsored by Demos, New York, September 13, 2004.
“Understanding Childhood in a Commercial Culture,” presentation to Department of
Sociology Yale University, September 9, 2004.
“Reflections on the Current Conjuncture,” Plenary Session, Cultural Studies Association
Annual Meeting, Northeastern University, May 2004.
“Gender and Workplace Inequalities,” Meeting of the Minds, Boston College, May 2004.
Participant and Workshop Leader, Conference on “A Surplus of Living Attention,”
Teresa Brennan Memorial Conference, Harvard University, May 2004.
“Re-Fashioning Clothing: Disposable Clothes, Elegant Waistlines, and an Ethic of
Sustainability,” Seminar on Gender and Sexuality, Humanities Center, Harvard
University, May 2004.
“Children and Consumer Culture,” Public Talk, Town School, New York, NY, May
2004.
“Consumer Culture and Children’s Well-Being,” Seminar to Department of Consumer
Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 2004.
“Globalization, Consumption, and the Environment,” Talk to SHARE group, Harvard
University, February 2004.
“Women, Work and Stress,” Panel Member, Women’s Heart Day, Sister-to-Sister
Foundation, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, February 2004.
“Marketing to Children: Effective Reform When the Genie is Out of the Bottle,”
Consuming Kids, Third Annual Summit, Stop the Commercial Exploitation of Children,
Roosevelt Hotel, New York, February 14, 2004.
“Consumption and Environment” Center for Environmental Science and Policy, Forum
Speaker, Stanford University, January 2004.
“The Overworked American: A Decade On,” Campus-Wide Lecture, North Carolina
State University, Raleigh, November 2003.
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“The Overworked American” Seminar to School of Parks and Recreation, North Carolina
State University, Raleigh, November 2003.
“The Commercialization of Childhood” Seminar to Department of Sociology, North
Carolina State University, Raleigh, November 2003.
“Overworked and Overspent: Ethical Choices in Work and Family,” Lecture Series on
Ethics and Community, Bryant College, Rhode Island, November 2003.
“Cleaning the Closet: Toward a New Ethic of Fashion,” Featured Lecture at Chicago
Humanities Festival XIV, Saving+Spending, November 2003.
Opening Speaker, Take Back Your Time Day Speak-Out, Faneuil Hall, Boston, October
24, 2003.
“The Commodification of Childhood,” paper presented at session on Consumers and
Consuming I, American Sociological Association Meetings, Atlanta, August 2003.
“Beyond Work and Spend,” Memorial Lecture, Association of Independent Information
Professionals, 17th Annual Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, May 2003.
“Beyond the Cycle of Work and Spend: Achieving Balance,” Luncheon Address to WID
(Women in Development of Greater Boston), April 2003.
“Can Americans Consume Sustainably? Ecological Lifestyles For Everyone,”
Environmental Studies Department, Middlebury College, March 2003.
"Materialism and Wellness," Workshop Presented at Project Wellness: Creating
Connections, Acton-Boxborough School District Conference, Merrimack College, March
2003 (also presented March 2002).
“The Commodification of Childhood: Tales from the Advertising Front Lines,”
Colloquium on the Commodification of Everything, Institute for Advanced Studies in
Culture, University of Virginia, February 2003.
“Emerging Trends in Consumer Culture,” Keynote to Convenience Retailing Conference,
Scottsdale, Arizona, February 2003
“Children and Consumer Culture,” Public Lecture, University of Connecticut,
Department of Sociology, December 2002.
“Critical Perspectives on Economics 10,” Harvard University, November 2002.
“Friday Forum on Sustainable Planet,” Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, November 2002.
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“The IMF and the World Bank in Perspective,” Teach-in on the IMF and World Bank,
sponsored by Harvard Aids Coalition, Harvard University, September 2002.
“National Security and the American Dream,” Plenary Session, Environmental
Grantmakers Association, Asheville, North Carolina, September 2002.
“Time and Sustainability,” Second Annual Century of the Environment Conference,
Omega Institute and Resurgence Magazine, Rhinebeck, New York, September 2002.
“Consuming Conscientiously: Are Mature Consumers at the Cutting-Edge?” Colloquium
on The Demographic Revolution: Prospects for a Maturing World, Harvard Institute for
Learning in Retirement, Harvard University, May, 2002.
" Toward Sustainable Consumption," Public Lecture, Green Party of Flanders, Antwerp,
Belgium, March 2002.
"Sustainable Consumption in the Urban Environment," Seminar, Vrij University of
Brussels, Brussels, March 2002.
"Consumerism and the New Inequality," Cambridge Forum, Cambridge, Mass,
December 2002.
Discussant, Conference on “What Has Happened to the Quality of Life in American and
Other Advanced Countries of the World,” Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard
College, June 2001.
“Overworked and Overspent,” Lecture of Association of Independent Schools in New
England, Westford, MA, April 2001.
Seventh Annual Breakfast with a Scholar Lecture, American Occupational Therapy
Foundation, Annual Conference and Exposition, Philadelphia, April 2001.
Plenary Session, “Transforming the Culture,” Children’s Defense Fund, Annual
Conference, Washington, DC, April 2001.
“Consumerism and the Environment,” Presidential Scholars Program, Boston College,
February 2001.
“Balancing Work and Family in the 21st Century,” Women’s Studies, Boston College,
January 2001.
“The Commercialization of Childhood,” Lecture Series on “Rethinking the 20th
Century,” Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, October 2000.
Invited Speaker, Colloquium on the occasion of the publication of The Fragile Middle
Class: Americans in Debt (by Teresa Sullivan, Elizaebth Warren and Jay Lawrence
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Westbrook), School of Law and Department of Sociology, University of Texas, Austin,
October 5, 2000.
“Work and Family: Balancing in the Twenty-First Century,” Ann Radcliffe Trust
Lecture, Opening Days, Harvard University, September 2000.
“Consumption and Environment,” Presentation to Quest Scholars Program, Harvard
University, July 2000.
“Search for Identity in the Internet Age,” Panel Participant, Conference on Internet &
Society 2000: Changing Our Lives, Harvard University, June 2000.
“Trends in Time Use: Assessing the Controversy,” Department of Leisure Studies,
University of Illinois, April 2000.
“The New Consumerism,” Blake Library, Discussion Sunday Series, Stuart Florida, April
2000.
“Trends in Time Use: Assessing the Controversy,” Center on Careers, Cornell University,
January 2000.
“Addressing Economic Inequality at Home and Abroad,” New Hampshire Unitarian
Universalist Social Responsibility Conference, Nashua, New Hampshire, October 1999.
“The Overspent American,” Boston Learning Center, Needham, Ma., October 1999.
“Households Under Pressure,” presentation to Boston College Center for Work and
Family, Corporate Work and Family Roundtable Meeting, Cambridge, Ma., September
1999.
“The New Consumerism and Simple Living,” presentation to Unitarian Universalist
Society, Wellesley, Ma., September 1999.
“Consumerism in America,” presentation to LIFExpo, International Investment
Conferences, Anaheim, California, August 1999.
“Integrating Labor and Consumer Markets,” Presentation to SSRC Summer Seminar on
Labor Markets, MIT, August 1999.
“Work and Community,” Community Matters Lecture Series, Abacoa Partnership for
Community, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, May 1999.
“The New Consumerism,” Seminar, Neiman Foundation, Harvard University, May 1999.
“The Overworked American: Developing a Balanced Lifestyle,” Talk to Faculty
Development and Diversity Committee at Harvard Medical School, May 1999.
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“Why We Want What We Don’t Need,” Address to Harvard Club of New York, April
1999.
“The Overspent American,” Talk at Conference on Time and Money, Marion
Foundation, Marion, Massachusetts, April 1999.
“The Overspent American,” Public Address, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon,
March 1999.
“Recent Trends in Consumption,” Talk to Department of Sociology, University of
California/Berkeley, March 1999.
“Households Under Pressure,” Talk to Berkeley Center on Working Families, University
of California/Berkeley, March 1999.
“A Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century,” Talk to Harvard Trade Union Program,
Harvard Univesity, March 1999.
Panel member, conference on “Twenty-Five Years of Political Economy at Barnard,”
Barnard College, February 1999.
Panel member, conference on “Women Enriching Business,” Harvard Business School,
January 1999.
Panel member, “Globalization, Trade and Labor Markets,” Harvard-ILO Transition Team
Workshop, Harvard Center for International Development, January 1999.
“The Overspent American,” address to New England Women in Real Estate (NEWIRE),
Hotel Meridien, Boston, January 1999.
Discussant, Symposium on Children, Work and Family, Conference on work and family:
Today’s Realities and Tomorrow’s Visions, Boston, 1998.
Participant, Interdisciplinary Panel on Consumption, Restraint, and Religion,
Culminating Conference on Religions of the World and Ecology, American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, 1998.
Speaker, Seminar Series, General Accounting Office, 1998.
"Voluntary Reductions in Hours of Work: A Survey on Downshifting," Annual Meeting,
IRRA/ASSA, 1998.
"Escaping the Cycle of Work and Spend," Lecture to Chicago Humanities Festival, 1997.
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"When Spending Becomes You," Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, Clairemont McKenna
College, 1997.
"Does Social Class Structure Consumption?" Special Session, Annual Meeting,
Association for Consumer Research, 1997.
"Voluntary Downshifting and American Consumers," Special Session, Annual Meeting,
Association for Consumer Research, Denver, 1997.
"Worktime and the Decline in Civic Engagement," Conference on Civic Engagement in
American Democracy, Russell Sage Foundation, 1997.
"Voluntary Downshifters in the US, 1990-1996," Annual Meeting, Academy of
Management, Symposium, 1997.
"Do Americans Keep up with the Joneses?: The Impact of Consumption Aspirations on
Savings Behaviour," Seminar, Queens College, Cambridge University, 1997.
"Do Americans Keep up with the Joneses: The Impact of Consumption Aspirations on
Savings Behaviour," Macro Seminar, CEnter, Tilburg University, 1997.
"Refugees from the `Fat and Mean' Economy: Downshifting in the 1990s," David Gordon
Memorial Conference, New School for Social Research, 1997.
"Beyond Work and Spend: New Attitudes to Work, Time, Leisure and Consumption,"
Public Lecture, New Ways to Work, London, 1996.
Toward a New Theory of Consumption," Series of Three Lectures, Havens Center,
Sociology Department, University of Wisconsin, 1996.
"Beyond Work and Spend," Arizona Humanities Council, Communities in Transition
Project, 1996.
"Work and Time," World Economic Forum, Annual Meeting, Davos, Switzerland, 1996.
"New Research on Consumer Behavior: Addressing the Quality of Life Issues,"
Conference on Economics and Journalism, MacArthur Foundation, University of
Massachusetts, 1995.
"Consumerism and the Decline of Family and Community,” Faculty Family Seminar,
Harvard Divinity School, 1995.
"Gender, Time, and Money: New Employment Models for the Twenty-First Century,"
University of North Carolina/ Greensboro, Department of Leisure Studies and Women's
Studies, 1995.
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Faculty Address, Junior Parents Weekend, Harvard College, 1995.
"Toward Sustainable Consumption," Environmental Studies Program, Innis College,
University of Toronto, 1995.
"Unequal Distributions: Time, Work and Family in the Contemporary United States,"
Seminar, MacArthur Foundation, 1995.
"Empirical Tests of Status Consumption," Annual Meeting, AEA/ASSA, 1995.
"Worktime in America: The Challenge for Policymakers," Labor Issues Seminar,
National Conference of State Legislatures," San Juan, 1994.
"New Models of Employment for the Twenty-First Century," Boston Human Resources
Association, 1994.
“Women and Change: Escaping the Cycle of Work-and-Spend," Women and Recovery
Conference, Greenville, S.C., 1994.
"The Challenge of Consumption: Strategies for Individual and Institutional Change,"
Plenary Session, Environmental Grantmakers Association Conference, Bretton Woods,
1994.
"The Stress of Modernity," paper for "Looking Back to the Future," Library of Congress
Conference, 1994.
"Consumption and the Quality of Life," Conference on Consumption, Global
Stewardship, and the Good Life, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, University of
Maryland, 1994.
"Time, Work and Money: Toward a Quality of Life Politics," Plenary Session, Center for
Popular Economics Fifteenth Anniversary Conference, Northampton, Mass, 1994.
"Time, Work and Money: Next Challenges," Leadership Institute on Work and Family,
Center on Work and Family, Boston University, 1994.
"The Overworked American," Palm Tree Educational Conference, California Credit
Union League, Palm Desert, California, 1994.
"Consumption Growth and Sustainability," Plenary Address to Defining Sustainable
Communities Conference, Tides Foundation, Oakland, California, 1994.
"Sustainability, Economic Growth, and Politics," Freedom Forum Symposium, Oakland,
California, 1994.
“Breaking the Cycle of Work and Spend," Seminar, Department of Leisure Studies,
Tilburg University, 1994.
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"Rethinking the Distribution of Jobs, Income and Time," Radcliffe Conference of the
same name, 1994.
"Status Consumption: Empirical Results for the United States," Seminar, Economics
Department, University of Notre Dame, 1994.
."New Policies for Reducing Working Hours," Address to the Advisory Group on
Working Time and the Distribution of Work, Government of Canada, Toronto, 1994.
"Is More Better? Work and Productivity in the 1990s," Harvard University Library
Professional Development Committee, 1994.
"Assessing Work-Family Initiatives," Videotaped Presentation, The National Work and
Family Alliance Summit, 1994.
Forum on "Labor and Leisure," Massachusetts Council of Churches, Framingham,
Massachusetts, 1994.
"The Prospects for Stabilizing Consumption in the North," Annual Meeting, Eastern
Economics Association, 1994.
"Work and Family: Challenges for Public Policy," Seminar on Future Directions for
American Politics and Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University, 1994.
"Overworked Americans: Can We Reclaim Our Leisure?" Wesleyan Forum, Boston,
1994.
"Technological Unemployment: Is It a Problem?" Plenary Address, Conference on the
Social and Economics Consequences of the High Technology Revolution, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, 1994.
"Economic Competitiveness and Leisure," Plenary Address, Annual Meeting,
URPE/ASSA, 1994.
Discussant, Session on "Motivation and Monitoring," Annual Meeting, AEA/ASSA,
1994.
"Revisioning Worktime: New Models of Employment for the 21st Century," Conference
on Working in the 21st Century: Gender and Beyond," UCLA, Institute of Industrial
Relations, 1993. (Published in Working in the 21st Century: Gender and Beyond, Judith
Glass, editor, Los Angeles: Institute of Industrial Relations, UCLA).
"The Shorter Workweek," Conference on Workplace Fairness, Jobs with Justice,
Roxbury Community College, 1993.
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"Analyzing the Overworked American," Lecture, The Jerome Levy Economics Institute
of Bard College, 1993.
"Working Hours and the Gendering of Employment Norms," SPURS Program,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993.
"Gender and Working Time: Beyond Male Models of Employment," Murray Research
Center, Radcliffe College, 1993.
"Why Shorter Hours Are Profitable," Lecture to KEIDANREN, (Federation of Japanese
Employers), Tokyo, 1993.
"The Overworked American: The Japan-U.S. Comparison," Public Lecture, Tokyo
Municipal Building, Tokyo, 1993.
"The Clinton Administration's Economic Policy," Seminar, Department of Economics,
Ritsumeikan University, 1993.
"Working Hours in the Postwar U.S.," Seminar, Department of Economics, Hitotsobashi
University, 1993.
"The Prospects for Stabilizing and Reducing Consumption in the North," WIDER
Conference on Macroeconomics and the Environment, Oxford University, 1993.
"Computers and Working Time," Conference on Computers and Social Change, Boston
Computer Society, Roxbury Community College, 1993.
"Working Hours and Personnel Policies," Washington Personnel Association, 1993.
"Worktime, Efficiency and Employee Morale," Treasury Executive Institute, U.S.
Department of the Treasury, 1993.
"The Overworked American: How the Time Squeeze is Becoming a Key Workplace
Issue and How Your Organization Must Respond," Training Director's Forum, 1993.
Selections from The Overworked American, Boston Public Library, 1993.
"Consumerism and Working Hours," Center for Psychology and Social Change,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1993.
"Work and Stress in the US and Japan," Japan-American Society/City Club of Seattle,
1993.
"Reflections on the Overworked American," Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, Clairemont
McKenna College, 1993.
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"The Overworked American: Transforming Gender and Work in the 1990s," Women's
Studies, LBJ School, School of Management and Economics Department, University of
Texas, 1993.
Comments on Fred Block for "Beyond Stalemate: The Politics of Economic Renewal,"
Future Directions for American Politics and Public Policy, Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University, 1993.
"The Overworked Attorney: Recovering Time for Self and Family," Harvard Law
School, 1993.
"Working Hours and U.S. Unions," Harvard Trade Union Program, Harvard University,
1993.
"Working Shorter Hours: Is It Economically Feasible? How Can It Be Done?," Boston
Work-Family Forum, 1993.
"The Overworked American," Best of America Conference, Tampa, Florida, 1993.
"Work, Leisure and Consumption: The Postwar U.S. Experience," Labor Studies
Department, McMaster University, 1993.
"Trends in U.S. Working Hours: Assessing the Controversy," New School for Social
Research, 1993.
"Assessing the Economic Status of Women," World Economic Forum, Annual Meeting,
Davos, Switzerland, 1993.
"Business, Labour and the State," World Economic Forum, Annual Meeting, Davos,
Switzerland, 1993.
"The Overworked American," The Cambridge Forum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1992.
"Public Policy and Working Hours" Solicitor-General's Seminar Series, Department of
Labor, 1992.
"Are Women Squeezed for Time?: Trends in U.S. Working Hours," Invited Session,
American Statistical Association Meetings, Boston, MA, August 1992.
"Work and Family Conflicts," Center on Work and Family, Boston University, 1992.
Moderator for "Work and Family" panel, Work/Family Conference, Conference Board,
New York, 1992.
"Reflections on The Overworked American," Center for European Studies, Harvard
University, 1992.
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"The Overworked American," CEO Leadership Conference, Emory Business School,
1992.
"Women and Development: Lessons from the U.S. Case," at Women and Development:
A Colloquium, Harvard University, 1991.
"On the Household Labor Literature: Biases in Relative Prices," Center for European
Studies Symposium on "Gender, Politics and Culture," 1990.
"Working Hours and Leisure Time in the Postwar United States," Economics
Department, Wellesley College, 1990.
"Is There a Time Squeeze?" Industrial Relations Seminar, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1989.
"The Debate over Manufacturing versus Services," Shifting Gears, Conference sponsored
by the Massachusetts Foundation on the Humanities and Public Policy, Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, 1989.
"Labor in the 1990s: Gender Issues," Provost's Mini-Symposium, Indiana University of
Pennsylvania, 1989.
"Work Intensity and the Macroeconomy," Economics Department, American University,
1989.
"Work Intensity and the Cost of Job Loss," Economics Department, UC Berkeley, 1989.
"Non-Walrasian Approaches to the Determination of Hours," Annual Meeting,
URPE/ASSA, 1988.
"Global Equity and Working Hours," Institute for World Development, Boston
University, 1988.
"Structural Determinants and Economic Effects of Capital Controls in the OECD,"
Conference on Financial Openness, World Institute for Development Economics
Research (WIDER), Helsinki, 1988.
"Too Many Hours: Work and Leisure in the 1990s," Conference on "The Economy in the
'90s: New Voices, New Proposals," Lyndon Baines Johnson School Library and School
of Public Affairs of the University of Texas, 1988.
"Corporate Profitability as a Determinant of Restrictive Monetary Policy: Estimates for
the Postwar United States," Annual Meeting, AEA/ASSA, 1987.
"Does Work Intensity Respond to Macroeconomic Variables?" National Bureau of
Economic Research, Summer Institute, Labor Markets and the Macroeconomy, 1987.
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"Minimum Wages and Economic Development," Conference on American Wages,
Incomes and Public Policy, John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs, University
of Massachusetts, 1987.
"The Political Economy of Central Banking," Conference on Global Macroeconomic
Policies, World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), Helsinki,
1986.
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