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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?

Most economists happen to be men, as is the case for the author of this manual. This has implications for the discipline of economics, and the focus of research. It is important for students of all backgrounds to feel as though they can contribute to the field, and we would like to inform students of who these women were, and how important their contributions are to economics.

Please consider that not all women economists consider themselves to be feminist economists. Some of the people we present in this section were working on very conservative aspects of economic policy or theory, such as

 

Sherry Cooper in Canada,

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

video here

  • 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

 

Anna Schwartz

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

 

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

 

Ruth Rose UQAM

 

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.

 

https://iref.uqam.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/56/2019/07/Hommage_Ruth_Rose.pdf

 

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