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Beyond economic man feminist theory and economics

Marianne A Ferber 1923-2013; Julie A Nelson 1956-

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Title:
Beyond economic man feminist theory and economics
Author: Marianne A Ferber 1923-2013; Julie A Nelson 1956-
Subjects: ECONOMIA; FEMINISMO; Feminist economics; Economic man; Economics; Wirtschaftstheorie -- Wirtschaftswissenschaft -- Rationales Verhalten -- Frauen -- Theorie; Wirtschaftstheorie; Feminismus; Economics Related to Feminism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Description: The social construction of economics and the social construction of gender / The study of choice or the study of provisioning? : gender and the definition of economics / Julie A. Nelson -- The separative self : androcentric bias in neoclassical assumptions / Not a free market : the rhetoric of disciplinary authority in economics / Some consequences of a conjective economics / Socialism, feminist and scientific / Public or private? : institutional economics and feminism / what should mainstream economists learn from feminist theory? / Race, deconstruction, and the emergent agenda of feminist economic theory / Feminist theory, women's experience, and economics / Economics for whom? /
An examination of the central tenets of economics from a feminist point of view. The authors suggest that the discipline of economics could be improved by freeing itself from masculine biases, and raise questions about the discipline's objective nature
Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press
Creation Date: 1993
Format: 178 pages 24 cm.
Language: English

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