Professor Folbre is keeping a weblog on care provision. Awesome. She was my introduction to non-Lynda political economy -- and the death of my contempt for feminist economic theory.

Susan Stinson reminded me this morning of one of Nancy's big questions: "What is the economy for?" -- and how her underlying assumptions clash with my friend John Perich's reminder: "The economy is a thermometer, not a thermostat". Struggling to define common terms between theories is half the conversation and the arena for the ideas.

Nancy Folbre on care as service and/or Service in When a Commodity Is Not Exactly a Commodity; by word association football, Val Morgan on commodity and priority in King John.