Out of the Margin: Feminist Perspectives on Economics

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Quote v
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgements xiii
• Introduction 1
• Part I - Herstory of Economics 15
• 1 - Into the Margin! 17
• 2 - A Heretical View of Economic Growth and Income Distribution 35
• 3 - Varieties of Deprivation 51
• Part II - Economic Theory 59
• 4 - Human Capital and the Gender Earnings Gap 61
• 5 - Fertility and Division of Work in the Family 80
• 6 - Toward a Feminist, Post-Keynesian Theory of Investment 100
• 7 - Economic Theory and Feminist Theory 120
• Part III - Interpreting Economics 127
• 8 - The Economist as Storyteller 129
• 9 - Reading Neoclassical Economics 151
• 10 - Feminist Interpretative Economics 167
• Part IV - Economic Measurement 173
• 11 - The Empirical Challenges of Feminist Economics 175
• 12 - Measuring Equality in Opportunity 2000 198
• 13 - Toward a Feminist Econometrics 216
• 14 - Economic Measurement 223
• Part V - Empowerment of Women 229
• 15 - The Use and Abuse of Neoclassical Theory in the Political Arena 231
• 16 - Women and Children Last 249
• 17 - Gender, Property, and Land Rights 264
• 18 - The Empowerment of Women 295
• Index 300

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