Julie Nelson

Julie A. Nelson is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University, USA.

Nelson is best known for her work in feminist economics, in which she investigates gender-laden biases in the definition and methodology of economics, and the implications of these biases for the economics of caring labor. She has also explored how these biases have shaped views about business responsibility and care for the environment in such recent works as Economics for Humans (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2006) and "Economists, Value Judgments, and Climate Change: A View from Feminist Economics" (Ecological Economics, 2008).

Nelson received her Ph.D. degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1986. She was a founding board member of the International Association for Feminist Economics, is an Associate Editor of the journal Feminist Economics, and is a member of the E3 Network (Economics for Equity and the Environment).