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A number of recent discussions about ethical issues in climate change, as engaged in by economists, have focused on the value of the parameter representing the rate of time preference within models of optimal growth. This essay examines many economists' antipathy to serious discussion of ethical...
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This essay explores the profoundly gendered nature of the split between the disciplines of economics and sociology which took place in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, emphasizing implications for the relatively new field of economic sociology. Drawing on historical documents and feminist...
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, can make effective fodder for teaching critical thinking within courses such as gender and economics, money and financial … differences in traits are important' or 'No - gender is irrelevant', students can be encouraged to question the question itself … gender irrelevant. The second part of this essay examines the important role of gender biases in the social construction of …
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