This major original reference work includes over one hundred specially commissioned articles on the lives and writings of women who made significant contributions to economics. It sheds new light on the rich, but too often neglected, heritage of women’s analysis of economic issues and...

This chapter draws on the debt-deflation process of <link rid="b17">Fisher (1933</link>) as well as on <link rid="b30">Keynes (1936</link>, chapter 19) and <link rid="b51">Tobin (1975</link>, <link rid="b52">1980</link>) to explore the concept of a corridor of stability, where an economy will be self-adjusting only for demand shocks small enough to leave it within that corridor....

This paper examines how economists from David Hume to Irving Fisher have struggled with the applicability of their analyses to those who differed from them in gender, ethnicity, class, or race. Particular attention is paid to how Fisher's discussion of racial and ethnic differences in capital...