DOCSLIB.ORG

Feminism, Economics and Utopia: Time Travelling Through Paradigms

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Feminism, Economics and Utopia: Time Travelling Through Paradigms Feminism, Economics and Utopia What are the goals of feminist economics? This book examines the nature of utopia in feminist economics. Karin Scho¨npflug explores utopian con- cepts, particularly those related to work and reproduction, drawn from the writings of utopian thinkers and applied to feminist economics. One part of this exploration relies on feminist, feminist economic and economic literature. The other part is based on empirical research: pre- dominantly the analysis of the journal Feminist Economics and major anthologies of feminist economics. These two parts together give an overview of the situation of utopia in feminist economics and answer the following questions: Are there feminist, economic utopian visions amongst feminist economists? What are these visions? Is there a common vision for feminist economics or should there be? Can feminist economics be effective without a utopian vision? The author also looks further into social arrangements, questioning the problems associated with the concepts of governance, nation-states, borders and institutionalized violence. Finally the rise of the utopian design of Neoliberalism, which has become mainstream thinking, is depicted as an example for the mar- keting and application of utopian ideas. Inspired by utopian thinkers of the recent and not so recent past, this book does not offer straightforward solutions but rather encourages thought and questioning. It will appeal to feminist economists, historians and all those with an interest in utopian studies. Karin Scho¨npflug is an Economist at the Austrian Ministry of Finance and also Lecturer at the University of Vienna, Austria. Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy 1 Equilibrium Versus Understanding 8 Social Economy Towards the rehumanization of The logic of capitalist development economics within social theory Clark Everling Mark Addleson 9 New Keynesian Economics/Post 2 Evolution, Order and Complexity Keynesian Alternatives Edited by Elias L. Khalil and Edited by Roy J. Rotheim Kenneth E. Boulding 10 The Representative Agent in 3 Interactions in Political Economy Macroeconomics Malvern after ten years James E. Hartley Edited by Steven Pressman 11 Borderlands of Economics 4 The End of Economics Essays in honour of Daniel R. Michael Perelman Fusfeld Edited by Nahid Aslanbeigui 5 Probability in Economics and Young Back Choi Omar F. Hamouda and Robin Rowley 12 Value, Distribution and Capital Essays in honour of Pierangelo 6 Capital Controversy, Post Keynesian Garegnani Economics and the History of Edited by Gary Mongiovi and Economics Fabio Petri Essays in honour of Geoff Har- court, volume one 13 The Economics of Science Edited by Philip Arestis, Methodology and epistemology Gabriel Palma and Malcolm as if economics really mattered Sawyer James R. Wible 7 Markets, Unemployment and 14 Competitiveness, Localised Learning Economic Policy and Regional Development Essays in honour of Geoff Harcourt, Specialisation and prosperity in volume two small open economies Edited by Philip Arestis, Peter Maskell, Heikki Gabriel Palma and Malcolm Eskelinen, Ingjaldur Sawyer Hannibalsson, Anders Malmberg and Eirik Vatne 15 Labour Market Theory 24 The Political Economy of Diet, A constructive reassessment Health and Food Policy Ben J. Fine Ben J. Fine 16 Women and European Employment 25 The End of Finance Jill Rubery, Mark Smith, Capital market inflation, financial Colette Fagan and Damian derivatives and pension fund Grimshaw capitalism Jan Toporowski 17 Explorations in Economic Methodology 26 Political Economy and the New From Lakatos to empirical philo- Capitalism sophy of science Edited by Jan Toporowski Roger Backhouse 27 Growth Theory 18 Subjectivity in Political Economy A philosophical perspective Essays on wanting and choosing Patricia Northover David P. Levine 28 The Political Economy of the 19 The Political Economy of Middle Small Firm East Peace Edited by Charlie Dannreuther The impact of competing trade agendas 29 Hahn and Economic Methodology Edited by J.W. Wright, Jnr Edited by Thomas Boylan and Paschal F. O’Gorman 20 The Active Consumer Novelty and surprise in consumer 30 Gender, Growth and Trade choice The miracle economies of the Edited by Marina Bianchi postwar years David Kucera 21 Subjectivism and Economic Analysis 31 Normative Political Economy Essays in memory of Ludwig Subjective freedom, the market Lachmann and the state Edited by Roger Koppl and David Levine Gary Mongiovi 32 Economist with a Public Purpose 22 Themes in Post-Keynesian Essays in honour of John Kenneth Economics Galbraith Essays in honour of Geoff Har- Edited by Michael Keaney court, volume three Edited by Claudio Sardoni and 33 Involuntary Unemployment Peter Kriesler The elusive quest for a theory Michel De Vroey 23 The Dynamics of Technological Knowledge 34 The Fundamental Institutions of Cristiano Antonelli Capitalism Ernesto Screpanti 35 Transcending Transaction 44 The Market The search for self-generating Equilibrium, stability, mythology markets S.N. Afriat Alan Shipman 45 The Political Economy of Rule 36 Power in Business and the State Evasion and Policy Reform An historical analysis of its Jim Leitzel concentration Frank Bealey 46 Unpaid Work and the Economy Edited by Antonella Picchio 37 Editing Economics Essays in honour of Mark 47 Distributional Justice Perlman Theory and measurement Hank Lim, Ungsuh K. Park Hilde Bojer and Geoff Harcourt 48 Cognitive Developments in 38 Money, Macroeconomics and Economics Keynes Edited by Salvatore Rizzello Essays in honour of Victoria Chick, volume one 49 Social Foundations of Markets, Philip Arestis, Meghnad Desai Money and Credit and Sheila Dow Costas Lapavitsas 39 Methodology, Microeconomics and 50 Rethinking Capitalist Keynes Development Essays in honour of Victoria Essays on the economics of Josef Chick, volume two Steindl Philip Arestis, Meghnad Desai Edited by Tracy Mott and Nina and Sheila Dow Shapiro 40 Market Drive & Governance 51 An Evolutionary Approach to Reexamining the rules for Social Welfare economic & commercial contest Christian Sartorius Ralf Boscheck 52 Kalecki’s Economics Today 41 The Value of Marx Edited by Zdzislaw L. Political economy for con- Sadowski and Adam Szeworski temporary capitalism Alfredo Saad-Filho 53 Fiscal Policy from Reagan to Blair 42 Issues in Positive Political The left veers right Economy Ravi K. Roy and Arthur T. S. Mansoob Murshed Denzau 43 The Enigma of Globalisation 54 The Cognitive Mechanics of A journey to a new stage of Economic Development and capitalism Institutional Change Robert Went Bertin Martens 55 Individualism and the Social Order 64 The New Institutional Economics The social element in liberal of Corruption thought Edited by Johann Graf Charles R. McCann, Jnr. Lambsdorff, Markus Taube and Matthias Schramm 56 Affirmative Action in the United States and India 65 The Price Index and Its Extension A comparative perspective A chapter in economic Thomas E. Weisskopf measurement S.N. Afriat 57 Global Political Economy and the Wealth of Nations 66 Reduction, Rationality & Game Performance, institutions, problems Theory in Marxian Economics and policies Bruce Philp Edited by Phillip Anthony O’Hara 67 Culture and Politics in Economic Development 58 Structural Economics Volker Bornschier Thijs ten Raa 68 Modern Applications of Austrian 59 Macroeconomic Theory and Thought Economic Policy Edited by Ju¨rgen G. Backhaus Essays in honour of Jean-Paul Fitoussi 69 Ordinary Choices Edited by K. Vela Velupillai Individuals, incommensurability, and democracy 60 The Struggle Over Work Robert Urquhart The ‘‘end of work’’ and employment alternatives in post-industrial 70 Labour Theory of Value societies Peter C. Dooley Shaun Wilson 71 Capitalism 61 The Political Economy of Global Victor D. Lippit Sporting Organisations John Forster and Nigel Pope 72 Macroeconomic Foundations of Macroeconomics 62 The Flawed Foundations of General Alvaro Cencini Equilibrium Theory Critical essays on economic 73 Marx for the 21st Century theory Edited by Hiroshi Uchida Frank Ackerman and Alejandro Nadal 74 Growth and Development in the Global Political Economy 63 Uncertainty in Economic Theory Social structures of accumulation Essays in honor of David and modes of regulation Schmeidler’s 65th birthday Phillip Anthony O’Hara Edited by Itzhak Gilboa 75 The New Economy and 84 Globalization Macroeconomic Stability State of the art and perspectives A neo-modern perspective drawing Edited by Stefan A. Schirm on the complexity approach and Keynesian economics 85 Neoliberalism Teodoro Dario Togati National and regional experiments with global ideas 76 The Future of Social Security Edited by Ravi K. Roy, Arthur Policy T. Denzau and Thomas D. Women, work and a citizens basic Willett income Ailsa McKay 86 Post-Keynesian Macroeconomics Economics 77 Clinton and Blair Essays in honour of Ingrid Rima The political economy of the third Edited by Mathew Forstater, way Gary Mongiovi and Steven Flavio Romano Pressman 78 Marxian Reproduction Schema 87 Consumer Capitalism Money and aggregate demand in Anastasios S. Korkotsides a capitalist economy A.B. Trigg 88 Remapping Gender in the New Global Order 79 The Core Theory in Economics Edited by Marjorie Griffin Problems and solutions Cohen and Janine Brodie Lester G. Telser 80 Economics, Ethics and the Market 89 Hayek and Natural Law Introduction and applications Eric Angner Johan J. Graafland 90 Race and Economic Opportunity in 81 Social Costs and Public Action in the Twenty-First Century Modern Capitalism Edited by Marlene Kim Essays inspired by Karl
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Econ 771.001
    ECON 771: Political Economy of Race and Gender Spring 2018 Dr. Elissa Braunstein Department of Economics, Colorado State University [email protected] Office: C327 Clark Office hours: T 1:00 – 2:00 (or by appointment) Overview I define political economy as “the study of the impact of group identity and collective conflict on the organization of economic activity and its consequences.” Political economy traditions tend to focus on class as a source of identity and group conflict. In this course, we will expand that focus to incorporate other sources of group membership, giving you a broad background in economic approaches to inequality and identity based on race/ethnicity and gender. We will focus primarily on the neoclassical, Marxian political economy and feminist literatures. In addition to learning more about the relationship between group membership and economic structures, we will use the prisms of race and gender to better understand and critique various approaches to economic analysis. And while much of the literature focuses on the U.S. context, I will try to broaden the discussion as often as possible, and encourage students to do the same. I welcome students from other social science disciplines. Although we will cover some advanced material that may be difficult for those who have not completed graduate economics courses, the emphasis will be on the main points, rather than the technical detail. The syllabus includes both required readings (*starred) and supplemental readings/sections as I wanted to give you a more complete sense of the literature if you are interested in looking further into a particular topic.
    [Show full text]
  • Barbara, the Market, and the State Nancy Folbre
    University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Economics Department Faculty Publications Series Economics 1998 Barbara, the Market, and the State Nancy Folbre Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/econ_faculty_pubs Part of the Economic Theory Commons Recommended Citation Folbre, Nancy, "Barbara, the Market, and the State" (1998). Feminist Economics. 106. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umass.edu/econ_faculty_pubs/106 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Economics at ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Economics Department Faculty Publications Series by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact [email protected]. B ARBARA, THE M ARKET, AND THE STATE Nancy Folbre ABSTRACT Some re ections, in poetry and prose, on Barbara Bergmann’s contributions to economic theory. KEYWORDS Bergmann, discrimination, child care, feminist theory A FAIRY TALE People say that, once upon a time, there was an emperor, Fond of silks and satins, vain to a fault, fearful that his naked parts Did not measure up, who employed many a tailor to construct A wondrous wardrobe that could make him look greater than he was. Yet he also wanted to seem good and kind and true because His authority rested on the consent of those he ruled. The emperor’s objective function, economists would describe As positive and decreasing in all Z goods related to his own appearance And consumption; picture an indifference curve describing combinations Of virtue and privilege that would equally suit; equilibrium depends On the relative price of both, the noble budget line, and hence, It matters that honesty is by far the most expensive good.
    [Show full text]
  • Catalogo Giornate Del Cinema Muto 2011
    Clara Bow in Mantrap, Victor Fleming, 1926. (Library of Congress) Merna Kennedy, Charles Chaplin in The Circus, 1928. (Roy Export S.A.S) Sommario / Contents 3 Presentazione / Introduction 31 Shostakovich & FEKS 6 Premio Jean Mitry / The Jean Mitry Award 94 Cinema italiano: rarità e ritrovamenti Italy: Retrospect and Discovery 7 In ricordo di Jonathan Dennis The Jonathan Dennis Memorial Lecture 71 Cinema georgiano / Georgian Cinema 9 The 2011 Pordenone Masterclasses 83 Kertész prima di Curtiz / Kertész before Curtiz 0 1 Collegium 2011 99 National Film Preservation Foundation Tesori western / Treasures of the West 12 La collezione Davide Turconi The Davide Turconi Collection 109 La corsa al Polo / The Race to the Pole 7 1 Eventi musicali / Musical Events 119 Il canone rivisitato / The Canon Revisited Novyi Vavilon A colpi di note / Striking a New Note 513 Cinema delle origini / Early Cinema SpilimBrass play Chaplin Le voyage dans la lune; The Soldier’s Courtship El Dorado The Corrick Collection; Thanhouser Shinel 155 Pionieri del cinema d’animazione giapponese An Audience with Jean Darling The Birth of Anime: Pioneers of Japanese Animation The Circus The Wind 165 Disney’s Laugh-O-grams 179 Riscoperte e restauri / Rediscoveries and Restorations The White Shadow; The Divine Woman The Canadian; Diepte; The Indian Woman’s Pluck The Little Minister; Das Rätsel von Bangalor Rosalie fait du sabotage; Spreewaldmädel Tonaufnahmen Berglund Italianamerican: Santa Lucia Luntana, Movie Actor I pericoli del cinema / Perils of the Pictures 195 Ritratti / Portraits 201 Muti del XXI secolo / 21st Century Silents 620 Indice dei titoli / Film Title Index Introduzioni e note di / Introductions and programme notes by Peter Bagrov Otto Kylmälä Aldo Bernardini Leslie Anne Lewis Ivo Blom Antonello Mazzucco Lenny Borger Patrick McCarthy Neil Brand Annette Melville Geoff Brown Russell Merritt Kevin Brownlow Maud Nelissen Günter A.
    [Show full text]
  • A Bibliography of Henry David Thoreau
    A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HENRY DAV ID THOREAU COMPILED BY FRANCIS H ALLEN BOSTON AND N EW YORK HOU G HTON MI FFLIN COMPANY MDCCCCVIII ' 1 131 Z m h u t/ u 04 ] 7 617 1 W W PYRIGHT IN” BY HOU HTON “M 00. , , G ALL RIGHTS RES ERVED FIV E HU NDRED AND THIRTY COPIES PRINTED “ 0 3 3 7 7 PREFACE THE ener a a n of is book is ba sed on th e g l pl th iio r a e ies w e n e r s ic a e rece iith s ie v t b bl g ph h h h p d d , b u tcer ta in e n in a o a r tu r es a ve ee m a e d p h b d , c or da nce wiw a th e a r ticu la r th h ta ppea red to be p em a n h e d ds of th e m a tter to be pr esented . T div sion- - ie n a is a r e owe er se ex a na tor v h d g , h , lf pl y , so ta tit see ce n n m s u nne ss r s ti h a y to a y a y h g u r ter er e a s to th e contents a nda r r a n em ent f h h g , a ndwe m a y pr oceed a tonce to th e a cknowledg m ents w in on ic c m w l o o m it a ll o er i t i h h , h h b b r a h er s th e com iler of is o w h e t o o es to t g p , p h b k m n h a er son w o a ve e him in h or s .
    [Show full text]
  • Socialism, Feminism, and Suffragism, the Terrible Triplets, Connected by the Same Umbilical Cord, and Fed from the Same Nursing Bottle, by B.V
    Socialism, feminism, and suffragism, the terrible triplets, connected by the same umbilical cord, and fed from the same nursing bottle, by B.V. Hubbard SOCIALISM FEMINISM AND SUFFRAGISM THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS RARE BOOK COLLECTION CHAPMAN CATT SUBJECT Section V Woman - Sociology No 27 SOCIALISM, FEMINISM, AND SUFFRAGISM, THE TERRIBLE TRIPLETS CONNECTED BY THE SAME UMBILICAL CORD. AND FED FROM THE SAME NURSING BOTTLE By B. V. HUBBARD Chicago: American Publishing Company 1820 City Hall Square Bldg. Copyright, 1915 by B. V. Hubbard DEDICATION To the innumerable multitude of motherly women, who love and faithfully serve their fellowmen with a high regard for duty a veneration for God, respect for authority, and love for husband, home and heaven, whether such a woman is the mother of children, or whether she has been denied motherhood and bestows her motherliness upon all who are weak, distressed and afflicted. This book is also dedicated to the man who is, in nature, a knight and protector of the weak, the defender of the good, who shrinks no responsibility, who has a paternal love of home, a patriotic affection for country, veneration for moral and religious precepts, and who has the courage to combat evil and fight for all that which is good. CONTENTS SOCIALISM Chapter Page Introduction 9 I. Socialism Defined—Immediate Demands Not Socialistic—Ultimate Demands Real Socialism 13 Socialism, feminism, and suffragism, the terrible triplets, connected by the same umbilical cord, and fed from the same nursing bottle, by B.V. Hubbard http://www.loc.gov/resource/rbnawsa.n6027 II. The Materialistic Conception of History—Consequences of the Materialistic Conception of History, Denies the Natural Rights of Man 21 III.
    [Show full text]
  • The Impacts of Technological Invention on Economic Growth – a Review of the Literature Andrew Reamer1 February 28, 2014
    THE GEORGE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC POLICY The Impacts of Technological Invention on Economic Growth – A Review of the Literature Andrew Reamer1 February 28, 2014 I. Introduction In their recently published book, The Second Machine Age, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee rely on economist Paul Krugman to explain the connection between invention and growth: Paul Krugman speaks for many, if not most, economists when he says, “Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it’s almost everything.” Why? Because, he explains, “A country’s ability to improve its standard of living over time depends almost entirely on its ability to raise its output per worker”—in other words, the number of hours of labor it takes to produce everything, from automobiles to zippers, that we produce. Most countries don’t have extensive mineral wealth or oil reserves, and thus can’t get rich by exporting them. So the only viable way for societies to become wealthier—to improve the standard of living available to its people—is for their companies and workers to keep getting more output from the same number of inputs, in other words more goods and services from the same number of people. Innovation is how this productivity growth happens.2 For decades, economists and economic historians have sought to improve their understanding of the role of technological invention in economic growth. As in many fields of inventive endeavor, their efforts required time to develop and mature. In the last five years, these efforts have reached a point where they are generating robust, substantive, and intellectually interesting findings, to the benefit of those interested in promoting growth-enhancing invention in the U.S.
    [Show full text]
  • Unconditional Basic Income
    Interrogations #3, Sociology 929, Week 4, February 13, 2018 Unconditional Basic Income 1. Wendy Does basic income undermine access to necessary public goods? Based on the state of public services in the United States, combined with political dynamics on the local, state, and federal levels, I worry that if UBI is implemented in the United States, the program will take on a much more libertarian character. This problem is addressed in OCAP’s paper, “Basic Income: Progressive Dreams Meet Neoliberal Realities,” as well as Barbara Bergmann’s chapter in Redesigning Distribution, “A Swedish- Style Welfare State or Basic Income: Which should have priority?” UBI has already been discussed as a policy to advance the libertarian objective of abolishing most public services like education, healthcare, housing, and transportation (see a series of essays from the Cato Institute: https://www.cato-unbound.org/2014/08/04/matt-zwolinski/pragmatic-libertarian- case-basic-income-guarantee). As it stands in the United States, many public institutions are already weak, underfunded, and inefficient. Without a concerted effort to improve these institutions, the provision of a UBI could possibly allow many individuals to turn to private services- whether it is enrolling in a private school instead of a public school, finding a private healthcare service instead of going to the VA, or taking Ubers instead of buses and subways. Rather than moving towards socialism, the UBI could instead fuel the encroachment of capitalism on the goods we consider to be basic and necessary to everyday survival. Furthermore, I believe the tradeoff Bergmann sets up, between funding public services and funding the UBI will play a large role in some localities.
    [Show full text]
  • An Intimate Revolution
    AN INTIMATE REVOLUTION FASCISM, SEXUALITY, AND KOMMUNE I IN 1960S WEST GERMANY Hannah Ryan A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in History. University of Sydney October 2011 Acknowledgements My thanks go firstly to Dr Margarite Poulos for her guidance and gentle pressure to get on with the job. Thanks too to Dr Frances Clarke and Dr John Gagné, whose seminars showed me how thrilling History can be. My still startled gratitude to Associate Professor Dirk Moses, who moved to Florence and so kindly bestowed many of his precious German texts onto me. They have found a good home on my bookshelf and in my bibliography. My love to Joseph, whose staggering confidence in me inspired me to work harder than was my inclination. I am grateful to Mala and Josh for their heartening Honours solidarity. Matthew and Lucy’s alternate offerings of comfort and critique were also very welcome. Finally, I must thank my mother Victoria Black and my father Christopher Ryan for not asking too many questions but being prepared to sit down with a red pen and a draft when I requested it. I hope they have not taken my writing on the bourgeois family to heart. A note on translation: All translations from German are my own. CONTENTS Introduction 1 Chapter One 14 Socialism with a Sexy Face Chapter Two 37 A Commune with a View Chapter Three 64 Promiscuity and Provocation Conclusion 85 Sexual Revolution? Appendix 88 Bibliography 91 INTRODUCTION Sex is not just sex.
    [Show full text]
  • DEMOPOLIS Democracy Before Liberalism in Theory and Practice
    Trim: 228mm 152mm Top: 11.774mm Gutter: 18.98mm × CUUK3282-FM CUUK3282/Ober ISBN: 978 1 316 51036 0 April 18, 2017 12:53 DEMOPOLIS Democracy before Liberalism in Theory and Practice JOSIAH OBER Stanford University, California v Trim: 228mm 152mm Top: 11.774mm Gutter: 18.98mm × CUUK3282-FM CUUK3282/Ober ISBN: 978 1 316 51036 0 April 18, 2017 12:53 Contents List of Figures page xi List of Tables xii Preface: Democracy before Liberalism xiii Acknowledgments xvii Note on the Text xix 1 Basic Democracy 1 1.1 Political Theory 1 1.2 Why before Liberalism? 5 1.3 Normative Theory, Positive Theory, History 11 1.4 Sketch of the Argument 14 2 The Meaning of Democracy in Classical Athens 18 2.1 Athenian Political History 19 2.2 Original Greek Defnition 22 2.3 Mature Greek Defnition 29 3 Founding Demopolis 34 3.1 Founders and the Ends of the State 36 3.2 Authority and Citizenship 44 3.3 Participation 48 3.4 Legislation 50 3.5 Entrenchment 52 3.6 Exit, Entrance, Assent 54 3.7 Naming the Regime 57 4 Legitimacy and Civic Education 59 4.1 Material Goods and Democratic Goods 60 4.2 Limited-Access States 63 4.3 Hobbes’s Challenge 64 4.4 Civic Education 71 ix Trim: 228mm 152mm Top: 11.774mm Gutter: 18.98mm × CUUK3282-FM CUUK3282/Ober ISBN: 978 1 316 51036 0 April 18, 2017 12:53 x Contents 5 Human Capacities and Civic Participation 77 5.1 Sociability 79 5.2 Rationality 83 5.3 Communication 87 5.4 Exercise of Capacities as a Democratic Good 88 5.5 Free Exercise and Participatory Citizenship 93 5.6 From Capacities to Security and Prosperity 98 6 Civic Dignity
    [Show full text]
  • A Feminist Critique of the Neoclassical Theory of the Family
    Chapter 1 8 Karine S. Moe A Feminist Critique of with Equal Employment Opportunity laws. Hersch surveys the relevant laws that prohibit employment discrimination. Connecting economics and the legal context, she uses noteworthy cases to illustrate the arguments employed in the courtroom to the Neoclassical Theory of establish a legal finding of discrimination. the Family Love, commitment, work. The essays in this book illustrate how economics can lead to a better understanding of the balancing act in women's lives. The authors help Marianne A. Berber beginner readers of economics to understand how economics can be applied to realms outside of the marketplace. The essays also challenge more advanced readers to think critically about how women connect the domain of family and care to the domain of labor market work. Gary Becker's A Treatise on the family (1981) was published about 20 years ago, a culmination of much of his previous work.1 It has remained the centerpiece of neo- REFERENCES classical economic theory of the family ever since, and Becker has widely, albeit not entirely accurately, been considered "the father" of what is also widely referred to as Becker, Gary. 1981. A Treatise on the Family. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2 Bergmann, Barbara R. 1995. "Becker's Theory of the Family: Preposterous Conclusions." the "new home economics." Actually, the honor of pioneering research on and Feminist Economics I: 141-50. analysis of the household as an economic unit properly belongs mainly to Margaret Hersch, Joni and Leslie S. Stratton. 1994. "Housework, Wages, and the Division of Reid (1934), who in turn gave a great deal of credit to Hazel Kyrk, her teacher and 3 Housework Time for Employed Spouses." American Economic Review 84:120-5.
    [Show full text]
  • Inventions and Patents
    MODULE 03 Inventions and Patents MODULE 03. Inventions and Patents OUTLINE LEARNING POINT 1: Basics of invention and patent 1. One way of adding value to a product 2. Reasons for patenting an invention LEARNING POINT 2: Patent application 1. Evaluating the patentability of an invention 2. Deciding whether to patent an invention 3. Preparing a patent application (1) Detailed description of the invention (2) Claims (3) Who prepares (4) After filing a patent application LEARNING POINT 3: Patent infringement 1. Definition of patent infringement 2. If you come across your competitor’s patent LEARNING POINT 4: Patent management system 1. Basic elements of a patent management system 2. Patent portfolio INTRODUCTION The term "intellectual property (IP)" is defined as the property resulting from creations of the human mind, the intellect. In this regard, it is fair that the person making efforts for an intellectual creation has some benefit as a result of this endeavor. Probably, the most important among intellectual properties is “patent.” A patent is an exclusive right granted by a government for an invention, which is a product or a process that provides, in general, a new way of doing something, or offers a new technical solution to a problem. The details on the way of acquiring patents will be provided for protecting precious intellectual properties. LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. You understand how to decide whether your new technology or invention should be protected by one or more patents and, if so, how to do so. 2. You know how the grant of a patent over an invention or technology helps you to prevent or have an upper hand in legal disputes that may arise later on.
    [Show full text]
  • Constructivism
    Constructivism The following is material to consider for your syllabus. Specifically, there is: 1 Scholarly writing on constructivism written by diverse scholars and experts 2 Scholarly writing providing geographic variety and geographically varied perspectives 3 Studies and analyses examining diversity, equity and inclusion-related dimensions of constructivism This is a living document; resources will be added and altered over time to ensure timeliness and quality. We would welcome your contributions and feedback. DISCUSSIONS OF THEORY Bukovansky, Mlada. "American identity and neutral rights from independence to the War of 1812." International Organization 51.02 (1997): 209-243. Key words: neutrality, constructivism, foreign policy continuity, war, group identity, mercantilism, commerce, treaties, navies, international trade “Constructivism.” Jennifer Sterling-Folker and Dina Badie. (2011). In The Routledge Handbook of American Foreign Policy. Steven Hook and Christopher Jones, eds. London: Routledge. Key words: end of the Cold War, post 9/11 and the global war on terrorism, American economic and "soft power" primacy, foreign policy development Dixon, Jennifer M. "Rhetorical adaptation and resistance to international norms." Perspectives on Politics 15.1 (2017): 83-99. Key words: states’ responses to international norms, rhetorical adaptation Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security giwps.georgetown.edu Syllabus Resources Finnemore, Martha and Kathryn Sikkink, “International Norms and Political Change.” International Organization, Vol. 52, No. 4 (1998): 887-917. Key words: International Organization, the relationship between norms and rationality Finnemore, Martha and Kathryn Sikkink. "Taking stock: the constructivist research program in ​ international relations and comparative politics." Annual Review of Political Science 4.1 (2001) Key words: constructivism, ideas, identity, norms, culture, beliefs Jurkovich, Michelle.
    [Show full text]