Nancy Folbre was recently interviewed on the podcast How to Save a Country, co-hosted by Michael Tomasky, editor of The New Republic, and Felicia Wong, President and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute:
“Director of the program on gender and care work at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Folbre discusses how feminist economics challenges traditional assumptions of classical economics—including consideration of care work as part of the broader economy. ‘I think we want to consider what the output of the care economy is, and the actual output is us. It’s our capabilities,’ says Folbre. ‘The care economy is about the production and the development and also the maintenance of human capabilities. This doesn’t factor into GDP.'”
