Ida Greaves, who was born in Barbados in 1907, is one of the
"missing female voices" of early development economics. This
biography, the first for Ida Greaves, attempts to construct her
career and era before the past wholly disappears. The biography
covers her early years in Barbados, her time at boarding school in
England, at McGill University in Canada where she focused on human
behaviour under the influence of changing social and political
histories and also published an early pathbreaking study of Black
migrants into Canada, and her later research at Harvard and
Columbia in the United States and at the London School of
Economics. Individual chapters follow her career acting as economic
adviser to the Colonial Office in London, where she worked
alongside Arthur Lewis, and at the fledgling United Nations in New
York. She published in top journals and produced an outstanding
study of the influence of colonial monetary systems on poor
countries. This accessible biography provides unexpected insights
into personalities and institutions during a critical period in
late colonial history. The issues it raises of class and race,
gender and inequality, poverty and unemployment, are of no less
relevance today than they were in her lifetime.
General
Imprint: |
Taylor & Francis
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Routledge Research in Gender and History |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
Authors: |
Barbara Ingham
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
168 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-03-249439-5 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-03-249439-5 |
Barcode: |
9781032494395 |
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