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“Egalitarian” Economics and the Male Ego
“Economic analysis is itself value-free, but in practice it encourages a cosmopolitan interest in natural equality” argues Tyler Cowen, economics professor at George Mason University, in this weekend’s...
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New School for Social Research Welcomes Economist as Dean
We’re happy to report that Professor of Economics William Milberg has been named as Dean of the New School for Social Research beginning in July this year. Professor Milberg is a scholar on trade,...
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If Neoclassical Theory Fails, Just Fall Back on Homophobia
Economists aren’t known for being the most sensitive of the social scientists. We prefer formalization to feelings, and some of us are better at making models than making friends. Apparently economic...
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Rest in Peace Feminist Economics Pioneer Marianne Ferber
Tonight I will be pouring out some of my wine spritzer for Feminist Economics pioneer Marianne Ferber, who passed away a week ago at age 90. She was born in Czechoslovakia and her family immigrated to...
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Trust Me, I’m an Economist
Noah Smith, an associate professor of Finance at Stony Break University has recently called into question the entire discipline of Economics. He equates asking economists for a economy advice to asking...
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Economisses
Ladies have made serious inroads in economics over the past few decades, but we still got a lot of room to grow. In 1970, women were awarded 7% of economics PhDs, and as of the late 1990s that jumped...
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Joan Robinson is Rolling in Her Grave
And not just because of the marginalization of Post-Keynesian economics or the current economic crisis. I expect that Patron Saint Joan Robinson would be disappointed to know that young women studying...
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The Death Eaters of Economics
Recently, Robert Atkinson and Michael Lind published an insightful article to Salon pinpointing the evils of Econ 101. Overall, I agree: the dumbed down version of Economics that those malignant...
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Sort Of, Economics is A Science
Harvard Economics Professor Raj Chetty published an op-ed in this past weekend’s New York Times titled, “Yes, Economics is A Science,” arguing, as the title hints, that economics is a science, as much...
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Lady Economists in an Economan’s World
Lady Economist is excited to be featured on Chronicle Vitae, a new website of the Chronicle of Higher Education, as columnists! Our first post is on lady economists and is cross-posted below. Check out...
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Lady Mathematician Wins Fields Medal
It turns out girls are good at math after all. Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani, Professor of Mathematics at Standford University, has won the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award given for mathematics. For...
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NSSR Faculty Awarded the 2015 Leontief Prize
Please join us in congratulating Duncan Foley (Leo Model Professor of Economics at NSSR) and Lance Taylor (Emeritus Professor of Economics at NSSR) who have been awarded the 2015 Leontief Prize for...
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The 2015 Rhonda Williams Prize Call for Applications
Sponsored by Routledge/Taylor and Francis, publisher of Feminist Economics In memory of Rhonda Williams, associate editor of Feminist Economics from 1994 to 1998, the International Association for...
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Workers, Women and Revolution: From Inequality to Solidarity
This past Tuesday, Julie Matthaei came to deliver a talk on her paper “Workers, Women and Revolution: From Inequality to Solidarity” at the New School. I was lucky enough to have seen her present it...
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