Nancy Folbre, a MacArthur Fellow, is a professor emerita of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values and Saving State U: Why We Must Fix Public Higher Education; a co-author, with Jonathan Teller-Elsberg, James Heintz, and the Center for Popular Economics, of Field Guide to the U.S. Economy; and a co-author, with Randy Albelda, of The War on the Poor: A Defense Manual, all published by The New Press. Her academic books include For Love and Money: Care Provision in the United States and Greed, Lust and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times’s Economix blog.