The use of the figure of Robinson Crusoe as an exemplar of rational economic man may be viewed as of no significance whatsoever, or as very significant in the creation of the meaning of the economic agent. This paper discusses two alternative views of feminist economists. Some feminist...

This paper presents a critique of the commonly-cited post-Keynesian "demand for credit" model, which tests the hypothesis that bank lending to business is driven by the working capital needs of firms, and which has appeared to support the contention that the money supply is endogenously...

Surrogate motherhood is a controversial subject, and has not previously been formally modelled by economists. In this paper, a neoclassical model of the market for surrogate motherhood contracts is developed, based on the utility maximising decisions of potential surrogate mothers and...

In this paper I demonstrate that feminist poststructuralism offers economics a series of insights which are not available from other feminist positions. Such research is situated in what is still the disrespectable margin of the economics discipline, within the newly emerging field of 'feminist...

The roots of the feminist economics which has come, the 1990s, to be widely recognized as in a distinct field of economics are to be found in theoretical developments in both neoclassical economics and in feminist theory from around the 1960s. The aims of this paper are to (1) delineate and...