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Julie A Nelson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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care ethics and markets a view from Feminist Economics
Social Science Research Network, 2011Co-Authors: Julie A NelsonAbstract:Feminist Economics, in its contemporary incarnation, began to bloom with the 1993 publication of Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics (Ferber and Nelson). Since then, many strains of Feminist thinking have developed around issues of the definition, methodology, philosophy, and policy application of Economics. One key insight has been the recognition of the mythical nature of the rational, autonomous “economic man” who was said to inhabit and operate the free market automaton. The crumbling of this image challenges theories of business and markets that see business as no more than rule-bound (i.e., bound to a supposed legal requirement to maximize profits, or to the “dictates of the market”)—and opens the way for serious new thinking about business ethics, responsibility, and care. In this essay, I will review these literatures, describing developments on topics including: how, historically, the images of “economic man” and machine-like market behavior came to gain credence; the role of masculinist intellectual biases in the continuing acceptance of the idea that economies are run by physics-like economic “laws;” alternative views of human nature emphasizing the many dimensions of relationality, including individuality, connection, interdependence, “power over”, “power to”, care, and responsibility; the treatment of paid and unpaid “caring labor,” historically mostly done by women, within Economics and Feminist Economics; alternative images of commerce as being within “the social,” and including all aspects of human functioning, including ethical and caring behavior; and, the role of continued dualistic or non-relational thinking in shaping some aspects of contemporary debates about the ethics of care and the role of business in society. Literatures to be drawn on include the Feminist philosophy of science, the history of economic thought, theological views on human relations and care, Feminist ethics of care, Feminist Economics, moral theory, psychological research on moral attitudes and behavior, research on the Economics of “caring labor” (e.g. nursing), business ethics, and my own previous works on these issues.
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care ethics and markets a view from Feminist Economics
Research Papers in Economics, 2010Co-Authors: Julie A NelsonAbstract:It is common to think of care ethics and justice ethics as being opposed to each other, and also to think of economic life as being opposed to social life. As a result, it may be hard to see how care ethics, seen as interpersonal, could be applicable to business, when the latter is perceived as asocial. This essay uncovers the origins of these beliefs in unhelpful dualistic cognitive habits and in gender-biases in the development of the discipline of Economics. In particular, Feminist analysis reveals the mythical nature of both "economic man" and the belief in mechanical "profit maximization." The essay calls for unveiling and recognizing the ethical and connected dimensions that already characterize business life, and including these in thinking about how to create a more humane economy.
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between a rock and a soft place ecological and Feminist Economics in policy debates
Ecological Economics, 2009Co-Authors: Julie A NelsonAbstract:Abstract The field of ecological Economics includes both economic analysis on the one hand, and discussions of normative values and visions for society, on the other. Using Feminist insights into cultural beliefs about the relative “hardness” and “softness” of these two sides, this essay discusses how ecological economists can use this unique “between” space in order to better inform policy. The current crisis of global climate change, it is argued, requires that economists move beyond modeling and measurement, while ecological thinkers need to re-examine beliefs about markets and profit.
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teaching ecological and Feminist Economics in the principles course
Forum for Social Economics, 2009Co-Authors: Julie A Nelson, Neva GoodwinAbstract:It can be difficult to incorporate ecological and Feminist concerns into introductory courses, when one is also obliged to teach neoclassical analysis. In this essay we briefly describe how one might extend existing “multi-paradigmatic” approaches to Feminist and ecological concerns, and then present an new alternative approach that may be more suitable for some students. This “broader questions and bigger toolbox” approach can be applied in both microEconomics and macroEconomics introductory classrooms.
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between a rock and a soft place ecological and Feminist Economics in policy debates
Research Papers in Economics, 2009Co-Authors: Julie A NelsonAbstract:The field of ecological Economics includes both economic analysis on the one hand, and discussions of values and visions for society, on the other. Using Feminist insights into cultural beliefs about the relative "hardness" and "softness" of these two sides, this essay discusses how ecological economists can use this unique "between" space in order to better inform policy. The current crisis of global climate change, it is argued, requires that economists move beyond modeling and measurement, while ecological thinkers need to re-examine beliefs about markets and profit.
Neil Shanks - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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against economic man a Feminist challenge to prevailing neoclassical norms in k 12 Economics education
Theory and Research in Social Education, 2019Co-Authors: Neil ShanksAbstract:ABSTRACTThis article outlines core tenets of Feminist Economics and contrasts these tenets with traditional neoclassical economic assumptions about human nature, value, markets, inequality, and pow...
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against economic man a Feminist challenge to prevailing neoclassical norms in k 12 Economics education
Theory and Research in Social Education, 2019Co-Authors: Neil ShanksAbstract:This article outlines core tenets of Feminist Economics and contrasts these tenets with traditional neoclassical economic assumptions about human nature, value, markets, inequality, and power. Furt...
Zdravka Todorova - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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employer of last resort policy and Feminist Economics social provisioning and socialization of investment
Research Papers in Economics, 2009Co-Authors: Zdravka TodorovaAbstract:The paper discusses the Employment of Last Resort (ELR) policy proposal that has emerged from Post Keynesian theory as an embodiment of what Keynes called “socialization of investment,” as well as an avenue for a social provisioning approach towards socialization of unpaid care labor. Intersections between Post Keynesian and Feminist Economics are delineated. The paper proposes avenues for input from Feminist Economics into formulation of an ELR policy, and raises questions about transformation of gender relations.
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employer of last resort policy and Feminist Economics social provisioning and socialization of investment
Social Science Research Network, 2009Co-Authors: Zdravka TodorovaAbstract:The focus of the paper is on the Employment of Last Resort (ELR) policy proposal that has emerged from Post Keynesian theory. The paper discusses this macroeconomic policy as an embodiment of what Keynes called “socialization of investment,” as well as an avenue for a social provisioning approach towards socialization of unpaid care labor. Intersections between Post Keynesian and Feminist Economics are delineated. The paper proposes avenues for input from Feminist Economics into formulation of an ELR policy, and raises questions about transformation of gender relations.
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introduction exploring Feminist ecological Economics gender development and sustainability from a latin american perspective african peasants and global gendered class struggle for the commons ecoFeminist political economy integrating Feminist econom
Feminist Economics, 2005Co-Authors: Ellie Perkins, Zdravka Todorova, Edith Kuiper, Rayen Quirogamartinez, Terisa E Turner, Leigh S Brownhill, Mary Mellor, Maren A Jochimsen, Martha McmahonAbstract:These Explorations argue that more links between the fields of Feminist ecology and Feminist Economics are both needed and promising, and presents new, boundary-crossing research in this area. It brings together contributions from various regions in the world that link political action and experience in practice and research in an economic theorizing that includes both environmental and Feminist concerns.
Irene Van Staveren - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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post keynesianism meets Feminist Economics
ISS Staff Group 3: Human Resources and Local Development, 2010Co-Authors: Irene Van StaverenAbstract:textabstractThis article explores the relationships between post-Keynesian Economics and Feminist Economics. It distinguishes three key concepts in each tradition that recommend serious attention in the other tradition: gender, the household and unpaid work and caring as key concepts in Feminist Economics; uncertainty, market power and endogenous dynamics as core concepts in post-Keynesian Economics. This article will show, with reference to the literature in which such cross-fertilisation has been explored already, how both traditions can be enriched from a stronger mutual engagement.
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post keynesianism meets Feminist Economics
Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2010Co-Authors: Irene Van StaverenAbstract:This article explores the relationships between post-Keynesian Economics and Feminist Economics. It distinguishes three key concepts in each tradition that recommend serious attention in the other tradition: gender, the household and unpaid work and caring as key concepts in Feminist Economics; uncertainty, market power and endogenous dynamics as core concepts in post-Keynesian Economics. This article will show, with reference to the literature in which such cross-fertilisation has been explored already, how both traditions can be enriched from a stronger mutual engagement. Copyright The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved., Oxford University Press.
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post keynesianism meets Feminist Economics
Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2010Co-Authors: Irene Van StaverenAbstract:This article explores the relationships between post-Keynesian Economics and Feminist Economics. It distinguishes three key concepts in each tradition that recommend serious attention in the other tradition: gender, the household and unpaid work and caring as key concepts in Feminist Economics; uncertainty, market power and endogenous dynamics as core concepts in post-Keynesian Economics. This article will show, with reference to the literature in which such cross-fertilisation has been explored already, how both traditions can be enriched from a stronger mutual engagement.
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introduction to the symposium on post keynesian and Feminist Economics
Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2010Co-Authors: Irene Van Staveren, Colin DanbyAbstract:The papers in this symposium treat Feminist Economics as a source of foundational insight and critique. They extend a dialogue between the Feminist and post-Keynesian literatures on questions of theory, method, epistemology and ontology. Dialogues across literatures raise questions of delimitation. Efforts to axiomatise post- Keynesianism are contentious. Feminist Economics is even harder to typify given the range of Feminist theories and variety of relevant Economics paradigms. These questions are discussed in Siobhan Austen and Therese Jefferson’s paper for this symposium. To borrow a term from Hamouda and Harcourt (1988), we approach both post-Keynesianism and feminism as capacious portmanteaus. We look for particular, well-formed ideas within each large tradition that might be helpful in the other.
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Feminist Economics setting out the parameters
ISS Staff Group 3: Human Resources and Local Development, 2010Co-Authors: Irene Van StaverenAbstract:Feminist Economics has developed its position over the past decade, towards a firmer embeddedness in economic science and a source of inspiration for activists, policy makers, and social science researchers in a wide variety of fields of research. This development has come about in a relatively short period of time, as is reflected, for example, in the follow-up book of the Feminist economic primer Beyond Economic Man (Ferber/Nelson 1993), published ten years later: Feminist Economics Today (Ferber/Nelson 2003). The strengthened position of Feminist Economics also shows in the 10-year anniversary of the prize-winning journal Feminist Economics, the flourishing of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE), as well as the more regular demand for Feminist economic policy advice by institutions like the UN, OECD and governments in developed and developing countries, and in well-established training courses in Feminist Economics, such as at the Institute of Social Studies and the University of Utah.
Donatella Alessandrini - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a social provisioning employer of last resort post keynesianism meets Feminist Economics
World Review of Political Economy, 2013Co-Authors: Donatella AlessandriniAbstract:This article proposes a collaboration between post-Keynesians and Feminist economists with regard to macroeconomic policies aimed at the socialization of investment, in particular the proposal for the government to act at once as the Employer of Last Resort and as a social provider. This is particularly important in the UK because the coalition government's Spending Review and Plan for Growth have dismantled public services and welfare benefits while emphasizing a narrow range of productive activities. This strategy threatens to widen the inequality that has led to low levels of demand and reliance by low- and middle-income households on unsustainable borrowing in order to maintain living standards. The article therefore contributes to current debates about alternative macroeconomic policies: it argues that the current emphasis on austerity needs to be replaced by a social provisioning approach that requires us to first pose the question of what the economy should be for.
