Heterodox feminist scholars have argued that global trade patterns reflect patterns of competitive advantage-rather than comparative advantage-and that that competitive advantage is gendered. Further, they have suggested that we need more theoretical and empirical scholarship in this area. This...

Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction: Sarkozy versus GDP -- The voice of economy -- Love or money -- A Jewish economy in Palestine -- Body of the nation -- Shape of the world -- Discovering economies in British Africa -- The IMF makes the world -- Romantic responses -- Romantic political...