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Kirstin Munro is Assistant Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research. The major theme of her research is the overlapping relationships between people, the economy, and the environment, with an emphasis on everyday life and work outside the wage relation. Her book, The Production of Everyday Life in Eco-Conscious Households: Compromise, Conflict and Complicity, was published in March 2023 by Bristol University Press. Her edited collection of essays by Lise Vogel, The Contested Domain: Selected Writings on Marxism and Feminism, was published by Pluto Press in November 2025.

Specializations: Feminist Political Economy, Ecological Economics, Urban and Regional Economics, Applied Econometrics, Qualitative/Ethnographic Methods, History of Economic Thought

Research Interests: The critique of political economy, household production, critiques of sustainability, theories of consumption, energy (production and consumption), local and regional economic development policy, waste and discards, unwaged work

Full CV and more information available at kirstinmunro.com

Degrees Held

PhD Urban Studies, Portland State University

MA Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago

BA Economics, Reed College

Professional Affiliation

Conference of Socialist Economists; International Association for Feminist Economics; Quaker Studies Research Association; Union for Radical Political Economists

Recent Publications

Munro, Kirstin. (2025). "The capitalist form of household production: Subsidy, anarchonism, or something else?" Etica & Politica/Ethics & Politics 27(1): 261-270. [Symposium on Michael Heinrich's Die Wissenschaft vom Wert.]

Munro, Kirstin. (2024). "Comments on David McNally’s 'Marx on Colonization and Bonded Labor.'" Review of Radical Political Economics 56(4): 469-475

Munro, Kirstin. (2024). "Social Reproduction," in Riccardo Bellofiore and Tommaso Redolfi Riva, eds. Marx: Key Concepts. Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming.

Munro, Kirstin. (2023). "Unproductive workers, 'life-making,' and state repression,"in Rob Hunter, Rafael Khachaturian, & Eva Nanopoulos, eds. Marxism and the State: Towards a New Debate. Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming.

Munro, Kirstin. (2023). The Production of Everyday Life in Eco-Conscious Households: Compromise, Conflict and Complicity. University of Bristol Press.

O'Kane, Chris & Kirstin Munro. (2022). "Marxian economics and the Critique of Political Economy," in Werner Bonefeld and Chris O'Kane, eds. Adorno and Marx: Negative Dialectics and the Critique of Political Economy. Bloomsbury.

Munro, Kirstin & Chris O'Kane (2022). "The Artisan Economy and The New Spirit of Capitalism," Critical Sociology 48(1):37-53.

Munro, Kirstin. (2022). "Overaccumulation, Crisis, and the Contradictions of Household Waste Sorting," Capital & Class 46(1): 115-131.

Munro, Kirstin. (2021). "Unproductive Workers and State Repression," Review of Radical Political Economics, 53(4): 623-630.

Munro, Kirstin (2021). Solid waste management practices and their meanings in ecologically conscious households. Environment & Planning: E, 4(4):1515-1532.

Munro, Kirstin (2021). The Welfare State and the Bourgeois Family-Household. Science & Society 85(2), 199-206.

Munro, Kirstin (2020). Review of Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women's Work (Brown 2019) & Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism against the Family (Lewis 2019). Review of Political Economy, 31(3): 474-478.

Munro, Kirstin (2019). 'Social Reproduction Theory', Social Reproduction, and Household Production. Science & Society, 83(4): 451-468.

Munro, Kirstin (2018). Unwaged Work and the Production of Sustainability in Eco-Conscious Households. Review of Radical Political Economics, 50(4):675- 682.

Munro, Kirstin & George Tolley (2018). Property Values and Tax Rates near Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage. Energy Policy, 123: 433-442.

Munro, Kirstin & Chris O'Kane (2017). Autonomy and Creativity in the Artisan Economy and the New Spirit of Capitalism. Review of Radical Political Economics, 49(4): 582-590.

Munro, Kirstin (2017). Hegemonic stories in environmental advocacy testimonials. Energy Research & Social Science, 31: 233-239.