{"id":2250,"date":"2019-10-16T18:39:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T22:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/?page_id=2250"},"modified":"2019-11-21T00:59:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T05:59:42","slug":"recipients04","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/about-us\/leontief-prize\/recipients04\/","title":{"rendered":"2004 Leontief Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003366; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-large;\">2004 Leontief Prize<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;\">Awarded to Robert Frank and Nancy Folbre<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/eci\/files\/2019\/10\/Professor-Robert-Frank.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"204\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2227 size-full\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>Robert Frank, author of\u00a0<\/span><em>Luxury Fever: Money and Happiness in and Era of Excess<\/em><span>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><em>The Winner-Take-All Society<\/em><span>, explained the forces that drive the economic system toward greater inequality and excessive consumption, while Nancy Folbre, author of The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values and The Ultimate Field Guide to the US Economy, discussed how to promote a more humane and cooperative economic system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/eci\/files\/2019\/10\/Professor-Nancy-Folbre-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"204\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2220\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>Professor Folbre is well known for her work exploring the interrelations of feminist theory and political economy<\/span><span>. She has investigated the economics of gender and families, and the importance of non-market production in economic and social development. Her recent work explores the reasons why the work of parents, nurses, teacher others who provide \u201ccaring labor\u201d is undervalued and underpaid, and how the situation could be remedied. She has also been a leader in promoting popular economic literacy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2004 Leontief Prize Awarded to Robert Frank and Nancy Folbre Robert Frank, author of\u00a0Luxury Fever: Money and Happiness in and Era of Excess\u00a0and\u00a0The Winner-Take-All Society, explained the forces that drive the economic system toward greater inequality and excessive consumption, while Nancy Folbre, author of The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values and The Ultimate Field [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16351,"featured_media":0,"parent":2059,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3238,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2250\/revisions\/3238"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}