only if the economists are Keynesians
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An interesting analysis...which would have been far better if the author had attended to feminist economics, which emphasizes topics neglected by the field that have primary impact on women--care work, intimate partner violence, the contributions made by women's unpaid work, etc.
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Marilyn Waring's If Women Counted [1988] argues that women's work & the value of Nature are not taken into account in traditional economics. A founding document in the discipline of feminist economics, it challenges taken for granted assumptions made by the male dominated field.
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That book has had an impressive impact in the "particulars" of economic practices-- persuading the UN to redefine GDP, and inspiring new accounting methods in dozens of countries. Waring's work and the discipline it founded incorporates human values and meaning into the analysis.
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So I have to ask John Lanchester
@HowToSpeakMoney...why? Did you not know feminist economics exists (it seems so)? If so, why? If you DO know of its existence, what values did you use to exclude it from the field? Is it an anomaly that doesn't fit your theory, so you ignored it? -
If you didn't know, or simply dismissed it as irrelevant, why? How is it that in 2018 you don't know of a discipline in economics that's been around for 30 years? If you simply dismissed it, what criteria did you use to decide it was irrelevant to your thesis?
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One of the biggest problems with traditional economics -- as well as traditional social science, traditional history, traditional ever other field -- is that it utterly fails to take into account the POV of half the world's population.
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How can there be a "unified theory" of anything that pretends half the human race simply does not exist? I'll tell you why traditional economics ignores women. It's because their bloodless abstract analyses would crumble before their very eyes. They'd have to confront FEELINGS.
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Only when humanists will ceased to be a ghetto council
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