Feminism, Objectivity and Economics

This book extends feminist analysis to economics. As well as evaluating the core models of neoclassical economics, this book includes case studies in topics such as the theory of the family, income tax policy and macroeconomics. It presents the outlines of a less gender biased-discipline which would be richer, more useful and more objective. Alternatives like discarding all current economic practice, or setting up an economics soley for women or for 'womens issues' are explicitly and emphatically rejected. A discipline informed by feminist theory would be an improved one, for all practioners and subjects. In most subjects the feminist critique is well advanced, but this is the first full length, single authored book to focus on gender bias in contemporary economics.Nelson, Julie A. is the author of 'Feminism, Objectivity and Economics' with ISBN 9780415133371 and ISBN 0415133378.