ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a modern-day example of projective identification as exemplified by the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Economics. In 2016 the honor was awarded to a male professor at Princeton University, Angus Deaton, without acknowledgement of Anne Case, a collaborator and at times the lead researcher in much of Deaton’s findings.
Anne Case, who happens to be Deaton’s wife, has a Ph.D. and has held the Alexander Stewart Chair in Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. She worked side by side with the prize-winning economist for 30 years, traveling around the world researching the relationship among mortality rates, inequality, and poverty that set the stage for Deaton’s lauded book. In spite of her contribution to his ideas, she was not mentioned by the Nobel Committee or Deaton himself. Instead, she was referred to as Deaton’s wife.
This chapter explores the fact that female economists have suffered from a second-class status since women were permitted to hold positions of authority in economics.
