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Women economists rarely feature in most textbooks on the history of
economic thought before 1960, despite the many articles and theses
produced by them in the period. Why is their work so little
studied? What did they write about? Who listened to them, supported
them or hindered them?Women of Value seeks to better understand the
lives and work of the women who helped to build the economics
profession. A number of these papers focus on the sociology of the
economics discipline including the failure to cite the work of
women economists, graduate work by women and the personal networks
among women economists in the pre-war period. It also includes a
personal memoir of the experience of one female graduate student
studying in the 1930s. Later papers focus on specific women
economists including Jane Marcet, Harriet Martineau, Harriet
Taylor, Barbara Bodichon, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Mary Paley
Marshall. The final chapter in the book looks at two studies of the
role of women in industry carried out in the early twentieth
century. Women of Value reassesses the role of women economists by
using biographical research to augment the standard tools of
historical and bibliographical work. Combining intellectual rigour
with biographical insights into the lives and experience of many
determined and courageous women economists, this volume will be
welcomed by historians of economic thought, feminist economists and
and the those with an interest in women's history.
Jean-Baptiste Say was one of the most influential and colourful
figures of classical economics. This book uses archival and
published sources to place Say in context, at the confluence of
several major currents in social philosophy. Familiar with the
writers of the Scottish enlightenment, especially Adam Smith, he
was profoundly influenced by the Revolution, the Terror and
Bonaparte's Empire, and by the republican thinkers with whom he
associated. His long and varied career included periods as a
journalist, an editor, a tribune under Bonaparte, a cotton
manufacturer, and, ultimately, as the most important political
economist in France. The Say that emerges from this study is far
from being the one dimensional popularizer of Smith and proponent
of libertarian ideology that he is often depicted as. Rather he is
an 18th-century republican trying to knit togther support for free
markets and industrial development with a profound respect for the
importance of the legislator, the administrator and the educator in
the creation and maintenance of civil society. This book contains
an English translation of the full text of "Olbie", Say's Utopian
novel written in the style of Rousseau for an
The articles in this special issue cover the history of women in
the economics profession, a largely male-dominated academic field.
Contributors explore the many ways in which women have contributed
to economics, particularly the careers that women have made (or not
made) while confronting discouragement and discrimination. By
placing the status and role of these women in historical contexts,
the authors seek to enrich our understanding of economics in the
twentieth century. Contributors:Â Rebecca Gomez Betancourt,
Jennifer Burns, Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, Jennifer Cohen,
Camila Orozco Espinel, Evelyn L. Forget, Andrés Guiot-Isaac, Erin
Hengel, Daniel Hirschman, Marianne Johnson, Christina Laskaridis,
Sarah Louisa Phythian-Adams, John D. Singleton, and Sarah F. Small
The role of the peasant has been a major theme for agricultural
economists throughout the ages. 'Irrational' decision-making among
peasants was as likely to worry scholars in medieval Islam as in
twentieth-century Brazil or eighteenth-century France. The
efficiency of smallholdings as units of production was as important
in nineteenth-century Germany and Mexico as in twentieth-century
India and sub-Saharan Africa.In The Peasant in Economic Thought, a
distinguished group of scholars examines the role of the peasant in
agricultural economies from a variety of cultural and disciplinary
perspectives. Beginning with a paper on the peasant proprietor in
classical economics, the volume continues with work on Friedrich
List, Thomas Robert Malthus and Thomas Chalmers, J.S. Mill and the
Hutterites of Manitoba, rent in Fabian economics, and the peasant
in nineteenth century Mexican liberal thought. Later papers focus
on the Brazilian peasantry in nineteenth century economic thought,
land in Medieval Islamic thought and decision-making in
contemporary African peasant households. Economists, historians and
environmentalists trace lines of influence - centring on John
Stuart Mill's liberalism and Auguste Comte's positivism - which
affected debate in England, Latin America, Canada, India and
sub-Saharan Africa.
In this discipline-defining volume, some of the leading
international scholars in the history of economic thought
re-examine the concepts of "classical economics" and the "canon",
illuminating the roots of the contemporary discipline, and the
shape and form of its evolution. The investigation addresses three
related issues. Firstly, the contributors attempt to determine
which ideas are vital to classical economics, and whether these
ideas distinguish classical economics from other approaches to
economic questions. Secondly, the essays address the development of
"classical economics" over time through sociological and
intellectual processes, and attempt to determine why some writers
and works are elevated to the "canon", while others are not.
Thirdly, some contributions examine the intellectual consequences
of this inevitable process of canonization. The book includes
examinations of the work of major economists such as Marx, Smith,
Ricardo, Bentham, Malthus, Keynes and Mill. Offering new
perspectives on the way an intellectual discipine is constructed,
this book should be of essential interest to all scholars of the
history of economic thought.
In this discipline-defining volume, some of the leading
international scholars in the history of economic thought
re-examine the concepts of 'classical economics' and the 'canon',
illuminating the roots and evolution of the contemporary
discipline.
This book uses archival and published sources to place Say in
context, at the confluence of several major currents in social
philosophy. The Say that emerges from this study is far from being
the one dimensional popularizer of Smith and proponent of
libertarian ideology that he is often depicted as. Rather he is an
eighteenth-century republican trying to knit togther support for
free markets and industrial development with a profound respect for
the importance of the legislator, the administrator and the
educator in the creation and maintenance of civil society
This major original reference work includes over one hundred
specially commissioned articles on the lives and writings of women
who made significant contributions to economics. It sheds new light
on the rich, but too often neglected, heritage of women's analysis
of economic issues and participation in the discipline of
economics. In addition to those who wrote in English, some notable
Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Russian
and Swedish women economists are included. This book will transform
widely-held views about the past role of women in economics, and
will stimulate further research in this exciting but underdeveloped
field. It is dedicated to the memory of Michele Pujol, a pioneer in
the field.
This major original reference work includes over one hundred
specially commissioned articles on the lives and writings of women
who made significant contributions to economics. It sheds new light
on the rich, but too often neglected, heritage of women's analysis
of economic issues and participation in the discipline of
economics. In addition to those who wrote in English, some notable
Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Russian
and Swedish women economists are included. This book will transform
widely-held views about the past role of women in economics, and
will stimulate further research in this exciting but underdeveloped
field. It is dedicated to the memory of Michele Pujol, a pioneer in
the field.
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