Juliet Schor

Namely of those is her appearance in 2017 on The People vs. American, Al-Jazeera multipart series which was awarded a Gold World Medal at the New York Festival for Film and TV.

Schor received the George Orwell Award for Distinguish Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language for her work The Overspent American from the National Council of Teachers of English in 1998; in 2006, she was awarded the Leontief Prize for Expanding the Frontiers of Economic Thought, Global Development and Environment Institute through Tufts University; in 2011, she won the Herman Daly Award from the US Society of Ecological Economics; and, most recently, she received the American Sociological Association Public Understanding of Sociology Award in 2014, in addition to several smaller accolades from various groups.

[5][8] While obtaining her Ph.D in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Schor began to explore how employers controlled and regulated employees.

[6] While a professor at Harvard, Schor was interested in another determinant of “the cost of job loss,” which was the number of hours worked by the employee.

[6] In an interview discussing her book Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth she 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.

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.

Further, in the book, Schor discusses a model she developed to predict hours of unpaid work in the home.

[5] In this book, Schor explores the social and cultural processes that drive individuals to unsustainable spending and debt.

Schor argues that one of the reasons for this change is the “keeping up” process of spending which has gradually led to overspending.

Schor also provides a sort of optimism at the end, advising parents and teachers on how to deal with this problem.

Looking at data extracted from thirteen cases, Schor comes to offer a better means for creating a shared and equitable economy.