Juliet Schor Biography
Juliet Schor is an American Professor of sociology at Boston College. She has studied trends in working time, consumerism, the relationship between work and family, women’s issues and Economic inequality, and the environment and concerns about climate change. From 2010 to 2017 she studied the sharing economy under a large research project funded by the MacArthur Foundation.
Juliet Schor Age
Juliet was born in 1955.
Juliet Schor Husband
Juliet is married to Prasannan Parthasarathi who is also a professor at Boston College.
Juliet Schor Hair color
Brown.
Juliet Schor Height
Her height is under assement.
Juliet Schor Net worth
Juliet has an estimated net worth of over $8 million.
Juliet Schor Personal life
Schor grew up in California, Pennsylvania where her father developed the first specialty health clinic for minors. As she grew up she gained a stronger sense of class difference and labor exploitation. She also found herself reading Marx at a young age.
She currently resides in Newton, MA. She has two children. Her husband, Prasannan Parthasarathi is also a professor at Boston College.
Juliet Schor Academic career
She received her undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University in 1975 where she majored in Economics and Philosophy. She earned her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1982.
She taught at Harvard University for 17 years, in the Department of Economics and the Committee on Degrees in Women’s Studies.{{|date=April 2015}} In 2014-15, she was the Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard.
n 1977, Schor was one of several founders of South End Press. Additionally, in 1979 she was a founding member of the Center for Popular Economics.
In 2006 she was awarded the Leontief Prize by the Global Development and Environment Institute.
Between 2013 and 2016, Schor with others in researched the sharing economy, interviewing a hundred workers.
Currently, Schor is Professor of sociology at Boston College and on the advisory board of the Center for a New American Dream.
Juliet Schor Publications
In 1992, Schor’s book The Overworked American was a bestseller.
Books:
- The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure, Basic Books(1992)
- Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century, (1995, 1999)
- 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, Penguin Press (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)
Juliet Schor Thoughts
In an interview with Peter Shea, she talks about her early intellectual formation, her critique of conventional economics, and her decision to write for an audience that includes the general public as well as her colleagues in the academy.
In another interview discussing her book Plentitude: The New Economics of True Wealthshe says, “When people work too many hours they tend to feel deprived and they use consumption to reward themselves, whether that be for an expensive vacation, kitchen remodel or a bigger diamond. The downturn has actually opened up space for people to think about different trajectories for their consumption expectations over their lifetimes.”
Awards and accomplishments
- Radcliffe Institute Fellow (2014-15)
- ASA Public Understanding of Sociology Award (2014)
- MacArthur Foundation grantee and research network member
- Carpenter Award, Economics Division, Babson College (2013)
- Herman Daly Award from the US Society for Ecological Economics (2011)
- Leontief Award from Tufts University (2006)
- Senior Fellow, Center for Humans and Nature (2011)
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