#89: Making women visible: rewriting the history of economic thought with Edith Kuiper

<p>Edith Kuiper is Associate Professor and Chair of the Economics Department at the State University of New York at New Paltz, updates New York. She edited (with Drucilla Barker) Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics (Routledge, 2003) and Feminist Economics and the World Bank (Routledge, 2006), and the Routledge Major Works Series Feminist Economics. Critical Concepts (2010). </p> <p>She also published 3 volumes of Women’s Economic Thought in the Eighteenth Century (Routledge, 2014) and recently A Herstory of Economics (Polity Press, 2022). She has been a long-time, active member of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) and was President of IAFFE in 2006. </p> <p>Her research has been in feminist economics and in the history and philosophy of economics. She is currently a visiting researcher at the Centre of Resilience and Sustainable Development at the University of Cambridge. </p> <p>We cover the following in this conversation:</p> <ul> <li>Edith&#39;s book: a Herstory of Economics</li> <li>The field of economics and the lack of attention to women, their economic issues and interests</li> <li>How this has a lasting impact on women&#39;s pay and their personal wealth to this day</li> <li>Women&#39;s work, often undervalued and underpaid</li> <li>The world of finance and why women have been largely absent</li> <li>And why we need more women in economics and how women can be made to feel more welcome.</li> </ul> <p>***</p>