Juliet Schor

Juliet Schor is a Professor of sociology at Boston College. She studies trends in working time and leisure, consumerism, the relationship between work and family, women's issues and economic justice. She received her undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University and her Ph.D in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Before joining Boston College, she taught at Harvard University for 17 years, in the Department of Economics and the Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies. In 2006 she was awarded the Leontief Prize by the Global Development and Environment Institute. She has two children who currently reside in Newton with her, Krishna and Sulakshana.

Bibliography

• The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure (1993)
• The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need (1999)
• Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture (2005)
• Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth (2010)

As co-editor or co-author:

• The Golden Age of Capitalism: Reinterpreting the Postwar Experience (1992)
• Do Americans Shop too Much? (2000)
• The Consumer Society Reader (2000)
• Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the 21st Century (2003)

External links

• Keeping up with the Gateses?
• Boston College faculty listing
• The Overworked American, excerpt
• Transcript of interview with Time.com about The Overspent American, May, 1998
• julietschor.org
• intelius.com information on Juliet Schor
• Juliet Schor on CSPAN Book TV discussing her book Plenitude from May 25, 2010
• Juliet Schor in Seattle, book to on Plenitude - May 24, 2010