Juliet Schor

Juliet B. Schor ( born November 9, 1955) is an American economist, sociologist and Professor of Sociology at Boston College.

Shor's research areas include sustainability in relation to the lifestyle of Americans, the economy and the nascent consumer movement. She is known primarily for her books The overspent American and The Overworked American, as well as through their lectures and media appearances.

Life and work

Born in 1955, she studied at Wesleyan University, received his doctorate in economics at the University of Massachusetts and taught 17 years at Harvard University.

Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. She is co-founder of the Center for a New American Dream, a national organization dedicated to sustainability, as well as the South End Press and the Center for Popular Economics. She is the founder of the Summer Institute in New Economics, a one-week seminar for graduate students. She has worked with the Wesleyan University, the Schumacher College and the Brookings Institution.

Schor is the author of numerous nonfiction.

Prizes and awards

  • 2011 Herman Daly Award of the U.S. Society for Ecological Economics
  • 2011 Senior Fellow of the Center for Humans and Nature
  • 2006 Leontief Award from Tufts University
  • Member of the Connected Learning Research Network of the MacArthur Foundation
  • Visiting Professor at Yale University
  • 1998: George Orwell Award
  • Guggenheim Fellow

Book publications

  • Juliet Schor: Consumerism and Its Discontents. Oxford University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-537168-0.
  • Juliet B. Schor: True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time - Rich, Ecologically Light, Small-Scale, High- Satisfaction Economy. Penguin Books, 2011, ISBN 978-0-14-311942-5.
  • Juliet Schor: A Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century. Kindle Edition, ISBN 1-888363-75-4.
  • Juliet B. Schor: Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth. Shang Zhou Chu Ban Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-986-120-200-6. ( in Chinese)
  • Juliet B. Schor: Born to Buy: The commercialized child and the New Consumer Culture. Scribner, 2005, ISBN 0-684-87056-8.
  • Juliet Schor: Do Americans Shop Too Much? Beacon Press, 2000, ISBN 0-8070-0443- X.
  • Juliet B. Schor: The overspent American: Why We Want What We Do not Need. 1999, ISBN 0-06-097758-2.
  • Juliet B. Schor: The overspent American: When Buying Becomes You. Basic Books, 1997, ISBN 0-465-06057-9.
  • Juliet B. Schor: The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure. In 1993.
  • Daniel Cantor, Juliet Schor: Tunnel Vision: Labor the World Economy and Central America ( Pacca Series on the Domestic Roots of U.S. Foreign Policy). South End Press, 1987, ISBN 0-89608-333-0.

As editor:

  • Juliet Schor (eds.): Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the Twenty - first Century: Road Maps for the 21st Century. Beacon Press, 2003, ISBN 0-8070-0455-3.
  • Juliet B. Schor (eds.), Douglas B. Holt ( ed.): The Consumer Society Reader. 2000, ISBN 1-56584-598-6.
  • Juliet Schor (eds.), Jong- Il You ( eds.): Capital, the State and Labour: A Global Perspective. Edward Elgar Publishing, 1995, ISBN 1-85898-295-2.
  • Stephen A. Marglin (Eds.), Juliet B. Schor (eds.): The Golden Age of Capitalism: Reinterpreting the Postwar Experience. 1992, ISBN 0-19-828741-0.
  • Tariq Banuri (ed.), Juliet B. Schor (eds.): Financial openness and national autonomy: opportunities and constraints. ( Studies in Development Economics ). Clarendon Press, 1992, ISBN 0-19-828364-4.
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