Date:
Friday, February 9, 2007.
12:00 PM.<BR/>
Location: TBA<BR/><BR/>
<p>Contemporary mainstream economics privileges market transactions, individualism, rationality, and relationships that can be mathematized. Feminist economics, like other heterodox approaches, challenges mainstream constructs and methods. This talk will summarize some of the key ideas that have emerged from feminist economics. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Myra Strober is Professor of Education and of Economics in the Graduate School of Business (by courtesy). She is an associate editor of the journal, Feminist Economics, and is past-president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE). Her article, “The Application of Mainstream Economics Constructs to Education: A Feminist Analysis” appeared in Feminist Economics Today, published in 2003 by the University of Chicago Press.</p><BR/>
Friday, February 9, 2007.
12:00 PM.<BR/>
Location: TBA<BR/><BR/>
<p>Contemporary mainstream economics privileges market transactions, individualism, rationality, and relationships that can be mathematized. Feminist economics, like other heterodox approaches, challenges mainstream constructs and methods. This talk will summarize some of the key ideas that have emerged from feminist economics. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Myra Strober is Professor of Education and of Economics in the Graduate School of Business (by courtesy). She is an associate editor of the journal, Feminist Economics, and is past-president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE). Her article, “The Application of Mainstream Economics Constructs to Education: A Feminist Analysis” appeared in Feminist Economics Today, published in 2003 by the University of Chicago Press.</p><BR/>