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Advanced Introduction to Feminist Economics
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Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.The intellectual origins of the area are explicated, and the current state of the subfield outlined. Specific topics covered include conflict over terminology, pedagogy, and content in the field of economics, measurement of the unmeasured economy, the role of caring labor in the economy, heteronormativity in economics, feminist approaches to economic development, multiple approaches to empiricism, modeling of intrahousehold relationships, consideration of the role of property rights in reifying gender roles, differential effects of international trade and finance by gender, and feminist approaches to public finance and social welfare.
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Table of contents
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 What is feminist economics?
- 2 Measuring the unmeasured economy
- 3 Intrahousehold allocation, bargaining, and relationships
- 4 Family structure and social policy
- 5 Rejecting normativity
- 6 Feminist labor economics
- 7 Caring
- 8 Feminist approaches to development
- 9 Feminist environmental and ecological economics
- 10 Gendered consumption and investment patterns
- 11 Feminist macroeconomics and economic growth
- 12 Feminist international trade and finance
- 13 Who gets what?
- 14 Feminist public finance and regulation
- 15 Feminist activism, reactivism, and social change
- 16 Feminist economists and the economics profession
- Ideas for further study
- Index