Nancy Folbre, a MacArthur Fellow, is professor emerita of economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is the 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 U.S. and Greed, Lust, and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas . She is a regular contributor to the New York Times 's Economix blog.

Randy Albelda is an associate professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. She is the coauthor of Mink Coats Don't Trickle Down and Bottomless Pits and Glass Ceilings .