Women Economists in the Original American Institutional Economics: 1900-1939. Identification and Relevance of Their Contributions
Abstract
The primary purpose of this article is to integrate relevant documentation on the endeavors and contributions of women economists between 1901 and 1939 within Original American Institutional Economics (OAIE). In this regard, I identify nineteen women economists who made significant and original contributions to fields such as the theory of consumption and savings, women's labor, and feminist economics.
Unlike the existing literature, which separately explores women economists and OAIE, this article takes an integrated approach. Through a comprehensive review of various bibliographic sources, it presents a unique exploration that identifies women economists within the OAIE as a cohesive group. These women, with shared affinities, worked in cooperation and through networks, and their endeavors— which I reviewed in this article —are highly relevant to current research.
In this article I discuss the claim that, after the pioneering work of Thorstein Veblen and Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the early XX Century on the social and economic status of women, institutional economics entirely overlooked the issue.
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