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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.

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Introduction: The Social Construction of Economics and the Social Construction of Gender , Marianne A. Ferber and Julie A. Nelson 1 The Study of Choice or the Study of Provisioning? Gender and the Definition of Economics , Julie A. Nelson 2 The Separative Self: Androcentric Bias in Neoclassical Assumptions , Paula England 3 Not a Free Market: The Rhetoric of Disciplinary Authority in Economics , Diana Strassmann 4 Some Consequences of a Conjective Economics , Donald N. McCloskey 5 Socialism, Feminist and Scientific , Nancy Folbre 6 Public or Private? Institutional Economics and Feminism , Ann L. Jennings 7 Discussion and Challenges , Rebecca M. Blank, Rhonda M. Williams, Robert M. Solow, Helen E. Longino

Beyond Economic Man

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 15 June 1993
      ISBN-13 9780226242019
      978-0226242019
      ISBN-10 0226242013
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      Economic theory and philosophy

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: The Social Construction of Economics and the Social Construction of Gender , Marianne A. Ferber and Julie A. Nelson 1 The Study of Choice or the Study of Provisioning? Gender and the Definition of Economics , Julie A. Nelson 2 The Separative Self: Androcentric Bias in Neoclassical Assumptions , Paula England 3 Not a Free Market: The Rhetoric of Disciplinary Authority in Economics , Diana Strassmann 4 Some Consequences of a Conjective Economics , Donald N. McCloskey 5 Socialism, Feminist and Scientific , Nancy Folbre 6 Public or Private? Institutional Economics and Feminism , Ann L. Jennings 7 Discussion and Challenges , Rebecca M. Blank, Rhonda M. Williams, Robert M. Solow, Helen E. Longino

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