When the rumpled, plain-spoken Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont spoke virtually nonstop for more than eight hours on Dec. 10 to explain his opposition to tax cuts for the rich, he quickly became a YouTube and Twitter celebrity.
Nancy Folbre is a Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an assoc... more
Nancy Folbre is a Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an associate editor of the journal Feminist Economics. Her latest book, Greed, Lust, and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
