Juliet Schor

Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College, a member of the MacArthur Foundation Connected Learning Research Network, and co-founder of the Center for a New American Dream. Schor’s research focuses on consumption, time use, and environmental sustainability. Her books include After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win it Back (2020), The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don’t Need (1998), and The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure (1992).

She is also the vice-chair of the board of the Better Future Project, one of the country’s most successful climate activism organizations.

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What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 46

Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College, a member of the MacArthur Foundation Connected Learning Research Network, and co-founder of the Center for a New American Dream. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”

June 29, 2021

M-Pesa

Working on Overdrive: The Future of Platforms and Working Time

It might be a bit of a hunker down message, but it’s about focusing on people’s needs: security, resilience, and minimising risks.

April 21, 2021

Debating the Sharing Economy

Is this sharing’s big breakthrough? Or business as usual?

November 25, 2014

Occupy sustainability

In a few short weeks a rag-tag group of under-thirties has been able to transform the global conversation about economic issues by focusing on three basic points, all of which are essential for stopping runaway climate change and ecological overshoot.

January 4, 2012

Visualizing a plenitude economy

This beautifully drawn 5-minute video provides a vision of what a post-consumer society could look like, with people working fewer hours and pursuing re-skilling, homesteading, and small-scale enterprises that can help reduce the overall size and impact of the consumer economy.

September 6, 2011

The incredible shrinking economy: revisions to GDP since 2007 reveal bleak news

Today, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released revised figures for the Gross Domestic Product going all the way back to 2007, and they aren’t pretty. The recovery is a failure; the economy is lousy; and the official discourse is in deep, deep denial.

August 1, 2011

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