Advisory Board
Juliet Schor, Ph.D.
Faculty, Boston College, Author, Boston, MA
Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College in Boston, MA. Schor’s latest book, Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture (Scribner, September 2004), is both an account of marketing to children from inside the agencies and firms and an assessment of how these activities are affecting children.
Schor is author of the national best-seller, The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure (Basic Books, 1992), The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don’t Need, and Do Americans Shop Too Much? (Beacon Press 2000). She is co-editor of Consumer Society: A Reader (The New Press 2000) and co-editor of Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the Twenty-first Century (Beacon Press 2002).
Schor has served as a consultant to the United Nations at the World Institute for Development Economics Research, and to the United Nations Development Program. She has lectured widely throughout the United States, Europe and Japan and frequently appears on national and international television and radio.
Currently she is working on issues of environmental sustainability and their relation to Americans’ lifestyles.