ABSTRACT
Julie Nelson is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where she has been since 2008. She is also a senior research fellow with the Global Development and Environment Institute. Her prior workplaces include the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics and the University of California, Davis. Her main research interests are gender and economics, philosophy and methodology of economics, Ecological Economics, and quantitative economics. The admissions committee – one of the people on it – later on told the author they'd no idea what that meant but the author's test scores and grades and stuff were good enough to get the author a fellowship anyway. The hard stuff, the economics side, was obviously better than the soft stuff like sociology. The old institutional school was very influential in United States (US) New Deal policies.
