Elgar Companion to Women and Heterodox Economics

Edited by Alexandra Bernasek, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Colorado State University, USA and Lynne Chester, Professor of Political Economy, Discipline of Political Economy, The University of Sydney, Australia

• ContentsForeword by Nina Eichacker xiiiPreface by Lynne Chester xvIntroduction: revealing the unrecognized and under-valued contributions of women heterodox economists 1Lynne ChesterPART I WHY WOMEN ARE HETERODOX ECONOMISTSIntroduction to Part I: Why women are heterodox economistsAlexandra Bernasek1 Working at the intersection of Financial and Feminist Economics 22Alicia Girón2 My journey as a heterodox economist: from the origins of money to degrowth 39Alla Semenova3 Being a heterodox economist as a feminist one 53Marcella Corsi4 Becoming a feminist institutionalist 66Janice Peterson5 Labour, imperialism, and finance: my journey as an economist 81Ramaa Vasudevan6 Tracing money: from personal history to abstract economics 93Ann E. Davis7 Gender and the Sri Lankan debt crisis: why feminist perspectives matter 107Kanchana N. Ruwanpura8 Reflections on epistemic injustice by a Régulationist 121Lynne Chester9 Gender, class, and African development: reflections on my path to heterodox economics 138Lynda Pickbourn10 Navigating the post-socialist transition: institutionalist Post-Keynesianism as a counter to neoliberal disaster 152Anna KliminaPART II THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF WOMEN TO HETERODOX ECONOMICSIntroduction to Part II: The contributions of women to heterodox economicsAlexandra Bernasek11 Bridging theory and praxis: the legacy of Heidi Hartmann 171Deborah M. Figart and Ellen Mutari12 Barbara Bergmann’s scholarship on the economic risks of being a housewife 186Sarah F. Small and Jade Ramirez-Barraza13 The rise and rise of feminist macroeconomics: who’s recognizing? 201Günseli Berik and Ebru Kongar14 Sadie T.M. Alexander: Black women and a “taste of freedom in the economic world” 217Nina Banks15 We are economists: Black women’s contribution to the dismal science 230Sophie G. Pinkston and Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe16 Swimming against the tide: Anne Mayhew and Edythe Miller 250Dell P. Champlin and Janet T. Knoedler17 Feminist Institutionalism 264Maríndia Brites18 J.K. Gibson-Graham: rethinking economic diversity, transformation, and community 279Esra Erdem19 How (un)productive is reproductive labour? Feminist political economists on capitalism’s household economy 295Sirisha C. Naidu20 The contributions of women to Post-Keynesian Economics and Post-Keynesian Institutionalism 308Anna Zachorowska-Mazurkiewicz21 Body and planet: re-embedding and re-embodying the economy 321Molly Scott CatoPART III WOMEN ADVANCING HETERODOX ECONOMICSIntroduction to Part III: Women advancing heterodox economicsAlexandra Bernasek22 An intellectual journey to theorizing motherhood in heterodox economics 337Elaine Agyemang Tontoh23 Being feminist economists today: identities, challenges, and responses 352Giulia Zacchia, Rebeca Gomez Betancourt and Naomi Friedman-Sokuler24 Climate justice, decolonization, and decarbonization 366Alexandra Arntsen25 At the frontier of economic development: researching gender and institutional change in fragile environments 381Holly Ritchie26 From crises to community: reflections on scholarship, pedagogy, and pluralism in heterodox household finance 397Melanie G. Long27 Social reproduction: theory and practice 412Serap Saritas28 Economics for all: time to tackle gendered constraints 425Ariane Agunsoye29 The influence of Kalecki’s theory of the firm on my heterodoxy 440Nobantu Mbeki30 Reflections about the state and development strategies in peripheral capitalism 454Emilia Ormaechea31 Understanding discrimination: the role of qualitative and historical methods 469Danielle Guizzo and Bárbara MoraisConclusion: the unmasked contributions of women heterodox economists enrich and advance heterodox economics 483Alexandra Bernasek

‘This powerful collection stands out as testimonial to the racial patriarchy within heterodox economics. Bernasek and Chester unapologetically amplify works by feminist economists worldwide grounded in ethics, community and lived experience making it a must read for anyone interested in people-focused economics.’