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Women in Economics

Why Should I Care?

Women have made important contributions to the field of Economics which may go unnoticed in a field dominated by men. We encourage you to learn about these wonderful women and their ideas.

This lesson has 4 parts

  • Nobel Winners
  • Women Economists in the World
  • Women Economists in Canada
  • Feminist Economics

Who are the Women in Economics?

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https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.women.html

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  • Nobel Winners

Esther Duflo (Nobel)

Experimental approach to alleviating global poverty


Elinor Ostrom (Nobel)

Commons

Elinor Ostrom was a political scientist who in 2009 became the first-ever woman to receive the prestigious Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, along with economist Oliver Williamson.


  • Women Economists in the World

Joan Robinson

Monopolistic Competition


Janet Yellen

Fed chairwoman

chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018

Betsey Stevenson

Labour Economics

Bronwyn Hughes Hall

Innovation Economics


Anke Becker

Herding and Gender Roles


Marianna Mazzucatto

“The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies”

Kate Raworth

Doughnut Economics, Oxfam


Jane Jacobs

Urban innovation, Development, Ecological economics


  • Women Economists in Canada

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Sherry Cooper

Nicole M. Fortin

https://sites.google.com/view/nicole-m-fortin

 

 

Emanuela Cardia

UdeM

 

Margarida Duarte

UofT

 

Nora Traum

HEC

 

Margaret Emily Slade

UBC


Silvia Goncalves

McGill

  • Feminist Economics

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_economics

 

International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE)

 

https://www.feministeconomics.net/

 

 

References and Further Reading

APA style references

 Aligica, P. D. & Boettke, P. J. (). Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development: The Bloomington School 1st Edition. Routledge.

 

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