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Women’s Economic Thought in the Eighteenth Century
In the history of economics, women writers were all but invisible until a few decades ago. Although much work has now been recuperated, the writings on economics of eighteenth-century women authors have yet to be brought fully to light. This new three-volume collection from Routledge remedies that...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Feminist Economics
Series: Critical Concepts in Economics
Edited by a leading scholar in the field, this is a new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Economics. It is a four-volume collection of historical and contemporary work in the flourishing field of feminist economics, an innovative and dynamic area of scholarship that...
Published November 23rd 2009 by Routledge
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Feminist Economics and the World Bank
History, theory and policy
Series: Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics
The past decade has witnessed a paradigm shift at the World Bank from a focus on structural adjustment to a focus on poverty reduction. As evidenced by the Bank’s 2001 report, Engendering Development: Through Rights, Resource and Voice, an increased attention to gender issues has been an important...
Published December 14th 2005 by Routledge
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Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics
Series: Economics as Social Theory
Feminist economists have demonstrated that interrogating hierarchies based on gender, ethnicity, class and nation results in an economics that is biased and more faithful to empirical evidence than are mainstream accounts.This rigorous and comprehensive book examines many of the central...
Published April 2nd 2003 by Routledge
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Out of the Margin
Feminist Perspectives on Economics
Out of the Margin is the first volume to consider feminist concerns across the entire domain of economics. The book addresses the philosophical roots of 'rational economic man', power relations and conflicts of interest within the family, the limitations of relying on secondary data and the policy...
Published July 19th 1995 by Routledge