By Julie A. Nelson
This vintage research extends feminist research to economics, yet rejects constructing an economics completely for girls. it's the first complete size, unmarried authored ebook to target gender bias in modern economics.
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The methodology, theories of behavior, definition, and objectivity of economics can be much improved by applying new thinking about the relation of gender and value. THE DEFINITION OF ECONOMICS The diversity of endeavors undertaken by economists suggests that there is no easy, definitive description of what economics is, and what projects are outside its realm. I will limit my comments to current mainstream North American economics (often referred to as “neoclassical,” in a broad sense) as I am not myself familiar enough with other branches such as Marxism or modern institutionalism.
The view of selfhood informed by this analysis means rejecting both radical autonomy and social determinism as paradigmatic stand-alone models of agency. As an example, consider two extreme explanations of the increasing labor force participation of women over the last few decades. A radical “economic man” formulation takes preferences as given, so that all of the weight of explanation is put on changes in relative prices (arising from, for example, technological and demographic changes). Any apparent change in preferences is explained as epiphenomal, that is, as an outgrowth of price changes rather than a cause of changes in behavior.
To the familiar dualistic contrasting of individual to social identity, and individual agency to social or material determinism, the scholarship 5 I use the pronoun “he” intentionally: the gender biases underlying the concept of “economic man” would by no means be overcome by replacing or alternating with the pronoun “she,” in an attempt at cheap gender neutrality. See Frank and Treichler (1989) for the difference between gender-neutral and nonsexist language. 31 THEORY, FEMINIST AND ECONOMIC on gender adds contrasts of connection and isolation, “influenced” action and radical autonomy.