“Thought Control In Economics”

Long essay here, excerpt below:

” … Despite her interest in feminist economics, Julie Nelson’s publication record is so impressive that she qualified for tenure at one of the top 30 US university economics departments. But she’s disheartened by the state of mainstream theory.

Julie Nelson
Julie Nelson

“We feminist economists have been assiduously ignored,”she says of her neoclassical peers.”Really no one has tried to engage in any serious way with the feminist critique in terms of, ‘We need to re-examine our assumptions.’ Very little of that is going on.”….

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