Juliet Schor

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

Schor's research areas include sustainability in relation to the American lifestyle, the economy and the newly formed consumer movements. She is best known for her books The Overspent American and The Overworked American , as well as for her lectures and media appearances.

life and work

Born in 1955, she studied at Wesleyan University , received her PhD in economics from the University of Massachusetts and taught at Harvard University for 17 years .

Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College . She is a co-founder of the Center for a New American Dream , a national sustainability organization, 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 week-long seminar for doctoral students. She has worked with Wesleyan University , Schumacher College and the Brookings Institution .

Schor is the author of numerous non-fiction books.

Positions

With her concept of True Prosperity (original title: Plenitude), Schor developed a proposal for how society could be reshaped. The growth critical concept is based on four main principles. First, Schor calls for society to rethink time as a resource. She criticizes the fact that in recent decades more and more time has been devoted to doing work that is almost exclusively focused on the market. Schor's suggestion is to reduce working hours in order to free up time for activities that take place outside the economic system, i.e. the market. The second principle is based on the liberation from the market and calls for a strengthening of self-sufficiency and creativity and thus the ability to produce things in fab labs , to use and distribute open source software and to grow vegetables and fruits yourself ( DIY ). It is a matter of using innovative technologies, such as observing the principles of permaculture in urban gardening projects , and efficiently generating your own income on small areas. In this way, communities should become more resilient and more independent of the volatile economic system. The third principle suggests a new way of consuming. Because of the reduction in working hours, a person who lives according to Schor's concepts will have less money to spend. For Schor, this does not necessarily represent a restriction, but an opportunity to rethink habitual consumption patterns and to promote really necessary, more conscious and environmentally friendly purchasing decisions. Also are sharing economy offers as well as repair and reuses lead to reduced consumption. The last principle focuses on strengthening social capital and communities.

Prizes and awards

Book publications

  • Consumerism and Its Discontents. Oxford University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-537168-0 .
  • 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 .
  • A Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century. Kindle Edition, ISBN 1-888363-75-4 .
  • Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth. Shang Zhou Chu Ban Publishing House, 2010, ISBN 978-986-120-200-6 . (in chinese language)
  • 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 .
  • The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need. 1999, ISBN 0-06-097758-2 .
  • The Overspent American: When Buying Becomes You. Basic Books, 1997, ISBN 0-465-06057-9 .
  • The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure. 1993.
  • (with Daniel Cantor) Tunnel Vision: Labor the World Economy and Central America (Pacca Series on the Domestic Roots of US Foreign Policy). South End Press, 1987, ISBN 0-89608-333-0 .

As editor:

  • Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the Twenty-first Century: Roadmaps for the 21st Century. Beacon Press, 2003, ISBN 0-8070-0455-3 .
  • (with Douglas B. Holt): The Consumer Society Reader. 2000, ISBN 1-56584-598-6 .
  • (with Jong-Il You): Capital, the State and Labor: A Global Perspective. Edward Elgar Publishing, 1995, ISBN 1-85898-295-2 .
  • (with Stephen A. Marglin ): The Golden Age of Capitalism: Reinterpreting the Postwar Experience. 1992, ISBN 0-19-828741-0 .
  • (with Tariq Banuri): Financial Openness and National Autonomy: Opportunities and Constraints. (Studies in Development Economics). Clarendon Press, 1992, ISBN 0-19-828364-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Juliet Schor: Curriculum Vitae. (PDF; 348 kB) Accessed December 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c Juliet Schor. BMW Guggenheim Lab, accessed July 29, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Juliet Schor. Boston College, accessed July 29, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Juliet Schor: True Prosperity. Live better with less work. oekom verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86581-777-8 ( reading sample [PDF] English: Plenitude. The new economics of true wealth . Translated by Karsten Petersen).
  5. ^ Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. ase.tufts.edu, accessed October 12, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Top Ten 2016 of Future Literature | Selected by the ProZukunft editorial team . In: The Robert Jungk Library for Future Issues (JBZ) . December 12, 2016 ( jungk-bibliothek.org [accessed January 10, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Schor, Juliet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schor, Juliet B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sociologist, economist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1955