| Juliet Schor
Juliet Schor (1955) studied economics at Wesleyan University and obtained her PhD in Economics at the University of Massachusetts in 1982. She has been assistant professor at Williams College, Columbia University and Harvard University, research advisor for the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) at the UN, head tutor of the Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies and Associate Professor of Economics, both at Harvard University. Currently she is professor of the Economics of Leisure Studies at Tilburg University, and on leave from her post as Senior Lecturer on Economics at Harvard, where she has taught since 1984. Juliet Schor is the author of 'The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure', which was a national bestseller in the US, and she has published articles on worktime in numerous academic journals and popular magazines and newspapers. Schor speaks frequently about issues of worktime and consumption to academic, civic, business, and political groups throughout the world. She is currently at work on a project on consumerism in the US, entitled 'New Analyses of Consumer Behaviour'. The project analyses longstanding consumer patterns (such as consuming for status), as well as the newer phenomenon of 'downshifting', i.e., the rejection of traditional consumer patterns. Her publications include: 'The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure' Basic Books, New York (1992) 'Capital, the State and Labour: A Global Perspective' (eds. Juliet B. Schor and Jong-il You) Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (1995) 'A Sustainable Economy for the Twenty-First Century' Open Magazine Pamphlet Series (1995) 'New Analytic Bases for an Economic Critique of Consumer Society', in: 'The Ethics of Consumption and Global Stewardship', ed. David Crocker, (1995) 'The Stress of Modernity', in 'At the End of the Century: Looking Back to the Future', Alvin Kibel and Bruze Mazlish, eds. John Hopkins University Press (forthcoming) |
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updated 29-5-1998 |