ABSTRACT
This book is not, of course, the first to suggest that economics should be flexible, attentive to context, humanistic and rich, as well as hard, logical, scientific and precise; or that the notion of Economic Man is seriously deficient as a model of actual human behavior in relation to nature and society; or that economics should concern itself more with concrete issues of provisioning related to the actual social and natural environment and less with abstract analysis of hypothetical choice. While the core of economics has remained firmly planted in the seventeenth century, the rest of the world has moved on. Periodic criticisms have been lobbed at economics, and at masculine-identified aspects of scientific thought in general, by both insiders and outsiders who, quite clearly, see the deficiencies of current practice.
