The Elgar Companion to Women and Heterodox Economics

Past, Present, and Future

Alexandra Bernasek, Lynne Chester (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

530 Seiten

2025
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0353-2930-4 (ISBN)

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This pioneering book aims to rectify and reduce the historic marginalization of women's economic scholarship, underlining their contributions to the field of heterodox economics.

Written by women, the book centers women’s voices, allowing them to represent themselves and their work. With most of the contributors originating beyond the Anglophone sphere, the book has a global outlook, pushing against the USA-centric scholarship on women in heterodox economics of recent decades. Focussing on why women are heterodox economists, and on their contributions to traditions in the field, chapters include first-hand accounts by both established and emerging heterodox economists covering their careers, influences, and thoughts on the future of the field. It also showcases the contributions of key women scholars to the development of dominant approaches including original institutional economics, feminist economics, Marxist economics, post-Keynesian economics and development economics.

A vital reference for heterodox economists around the globe, this Elgar Companion is also an enlightening read for scholars in political economy, sociology, history, political science, philosophy and gender studies.

Edited by Alexandra Bernasek, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Colorado State University, USA and Lynne Chester, Professor of Political Economy, Discipline of Political Economy, The University of Sydney, Australia

Contents
Foreword by Nina Eichacker xiii
Preface by Lynne Chester xv
Introduction: revealing the unrecognized and under-valued contributions of women heterodox economists 1
Lynne Chester
PART I WHY WOMEN ARE HETERODOX ECONOMISTS
Introduction to Part I: Why women are heterodox economists
Alexandra Bernasek
1 Working at the intersection of Financial and Feminist Economics 22
Alicia Girón
2 My journey as a heterodox economist: from the origins of money to degrowth 39
Alla Semenova
3 Being a heterodox economist as a feminist one 53
Marcella Corsi
4 Becoming a feminist institutionalist 66
Janice Peterson
5 Labour, imperialism, and finance: my journey as an economist 81
Ramaa Vasudevan
6 Tracing money: from personal history to abstract economics 93
Ann E. Davis
7 Gender and the Sri Lankan debt crisis: why feminist perspectives matter 107
Kanchana N. Ruwanpura
8 Reflections on epistemic injustice by a Régulationist 121
Lynne Chester
9 Gender, class, and African development: reflections on my path to heterodox economics 138
Lynda Pickbourn
10 Navigating the post-socialist transition: institutionalist Post-Keynesianism as a counter to neoliberal disaster 152
Anna Klimina
PART II THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF WOMEN TO HETERODOX ECONOMICS
Introduction to Part II: The contributions of women to heterodox economics
Alexandra Bernasek
11 Bridging theory and praxis: the legacy of Heidi Hartmann 171
Deborah M. Figart and Ellen Mutari
12 Barbara Bergmann’s scholarship on the economic risks of being a housewife 186
Sarah F. Small and Jade Ramirez-Barraza
13 The rise and rise of feminist macroeconomics: who’s recognizing? 201
Günseli Berik and Ebru Kongar
14 Sadie T.M. Alexander: Black women and a “taste of freedom in the economic world” 217
Nina Banks
15 We are economists: Black women’s contribution to the dismal science 230
Sophie G. Pinkston and Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe
16 Swimming against the tide: Anne Mayhew and Edythe Miller 250
Dell P. Champlin and Janet T. Knoedler
17 Feminist Institutionalism 264
Maríndia Brites
18 J.K. Gibson-Graham: rethinking economic diversity, transformation, and community 279
Esra Erdem
19 How (un)productive is reproductive labour? Feminist political economists on capitalism’s household economy 295
Sirisha C. Naidu
20 The contributions of women to Post-Keynesian Economics and Post-Keynesian Institutionalism 308
Anna Zachorowska-Mazurkiewicz
21 Body and planet: re-embedding and re-embodying the economy 321
Molly Scott Cato
PART III WOMEN ADVANCING HETERODOX ECONOMICS
Introduction to Part III: Women advancing heterodox economics
Alexandra Bernasek
22 An intellectual journey to theorizing motherhood in heterodox economics 337
Elaine Agyemang Tontoh
23 Being feminist economists today: identities, challenges, and responses 352
Giulia Zacchia, Rebeca Gomez Betancourt and Naomi Friedman-Sokuler
24 Climate justice, decolonization, and decarbonization 366
Alexandra Arntsen
25 At the frontier of economic development: researching gender and institutional change in fragile environments 381
Holly Ritchie
26 From crises to community: reflections on scholarship, pedagogy, and pluralism in heterodox household finance 397
Melanie G. Long
27 Social reproduction: theory and practice 412
Serap Saritas
28 Economics for all: time to tackle gendered constraints 425
Ariane Agunsoye
29 The influence of Kalecki’s theory of the firm on my heterodoxy 440
Nobantu Mbeki
30 Reflections about the state and development strategies in peripheral capitalism 454
Emilia Ormaechea
31 Understanding discrimination: the role of qualitative and historical methods 469
Danielle Guizzo and Bárbara Morais
Conclusion: the unmasked contributions of women heterodox economists enrich and advance heterodox economics 483
Alexandra Bernasek

Erscheinungsdatum	18.12.2025
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-0353-2930-1 / 1035329301
ISBN-13	978-1-0353-2930-4 / 9781035329304
Zustand	Neuware