ABSTRACT
The marginalization of women in economics has a history as long as the discipline itself. Throughout the history of economics, women contributed substantial novel ideas, methods of inquiry, and analytical insights, with much of this discounted, ignored, or shifted into alternative disciplines and writing outlets.
This handbook presents new and much-needed analytical research of women’s contributions in the history of economic thought, focusing primarily on the period from the 1770s into the beginning of the 21st century. Chapters address the institutional, sociological and historical factors that have influenced women economists’ thinking, and explore women’s contributions to economic analysis, method, policies and debates. Coverage is international, moving beyond Europe and the US into the Arab world, China, India, Japan, Latin America, Russia and the Soviet Union, and sub-Saharan Africa. This new global perspective adds depth as well as scope to our understanding of women’s contribution to the history of economic thought.
The book offers crucial new insights into previously underexplored work by women in the history of economic thought, and will prove to be a seminal volume with relevance beyond that field, into women’s studies, sociology, and history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|100 pages
Beginning prior to 1850
chapter 2|20 pages
English women’s economic thought in the 1790s
chapter 4|17 pages
Harriet Taylor Mill, Mary Paley Marshall and Beatrice Potter Webb
part II|98 pages
Beginning in the late 19th century
chapter 6|16 pages
Contextualizing women’s economic thought in late Imperial Russia and in the early years of revolution
chapter 7|21 pages
Is equal pay worth it?
chapter 9|22 pages
Anecdotes of discrimination
part III|98 pages
Beginning in the early 20th century
chapter 13|22 pages
Women economists of promise?
chapter 14|18 pages
Early women economists at Columbia University
chapter 15|17 pages
Chinese economic development and Chinese women economists
part IV|66 pages
Spanning the mid-20th century
chapter 19|15 pages
The two faces of economic forecasting in Italy
part V|82 pages
Beginning mid-20th, extending into the 21st century