Rethinking Home Economics

Author : Sarah Stage,Virginia B. Vincenti
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501729942

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Rethinking Home Economics by Sarah Stage,Virginia B. Vincenti Pdf

Until recently, historians tended to dismiss home economics as little more than a conspiracy to keep women in the kitchen. This landmark volume initiates collaboration among home economists, family and consumer science professionals, and women's historians. What knits the essays together is a willingness to revisit the subject of home economics with neither indictment nor apology. The volume includes significant new work that places home economics in the twentieth century within the context of the development of women's professions. Rethinking Home Economics documents the evolution of a profession from the home economics movement launched by Ellen Richards in the early twentieth century to the modern field renamed Family and Consumer Sciences in 1994. The essays in this volume show the range of activities pursued under the rubric of home economics, from dietetics and parenting, teaching and cooperative extension work, to test kitchen and product development. Exploration of the ways in which gender, race, and class influenced women's options in colleges and universities, hospitals, business, and industry, as well as government has provided a greater understanding of the obstacles women encountered and the strategies they used to gain legitimacy as the field developed.

Author : Sarah Stage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Home economics
ISBN : 0804181756

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Rethinking Home Economics by Sarah Stage Pdf

Author : Josh Ryan-Collins,Toby Lloyd,Laurie Macfarlane
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781786991218

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Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing by Josh Ryan-Collins,Toby Lloyd,Laurie Macfarlane Pdf

Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes? Why isn’t land and location taught or seen as important in modern economics? What is the relationship between the financial system and land? In this accessible but provocative guide to the economics of land and housing, the authors reveal how many of the key challenges facing modern economies - including housing crises, financial instability and growing inequalities - are intimately tied to the land economy. Looking at the ways in which discussions of land have been routinely excluded from both housing policy and economic theory, the authors show that in order to tackle these increasingly pressing issues a major rethink by both politicians and economists is required.

Author : Liliann Fischer,Joe Hasell,J. Christopher Proctor,David Uwakwe,Zach Ward Perkins,Catriona Watson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315407241

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Rethinking Economics by Liliann Fischer,Joe Hasell,J. Christopher Proctor,David Uwakwe,Zach Ward Perkins,Catriona Watson Pdf

Economics is a broad and diverse discipline, but most economics textbooks only cover one way of thinking about the economy. This book provides an accessible introduction to nine different approaches to economics: from feminist to ecological and Marxist to behavioural. Each chapter is written by a leading expert in the field described and is intended to stand on its own as well as providing an ambitious survey that seeks to highlight the true diversity of economic thought. Students of economics around the world have begun to demand a more open economics education. This book represents a first step in creating the materials needed to introduce new and diverse ideas into the static world of undergraduate economics. This book will provide context for undergraduate students by placing the mainstream of economic thought side by side with more heterodox schools. This is in keeping with the Rethinking Economics campaign which argues that students are better served when they are presented with a spectrum of economic ideas rather than just the dominant paradigm. Rethinking Economics: An Introduction to Pluralist Economics is a great entry-level economics textbook for lecturers looking to introduce students to the broader range of ideas explored within the economics profession. It is also appropriate and accessible for people outside of academia who are interested in economics and economic theory.

Author : Abhijit V. Banerjee,Esther Duflo
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781610391603

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Poor Economics by Abhijit V. Banerjee,Esther Duflo Pdf

The winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics upend the most common assumptions about how economics works in this gripping and disruptive portrait of how poor people actually live. Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two award-winning MIT professors, answer these questions based on years of field research from around the world. Called "marvelous, rewarding" by the Wall Street Journal, the book offers a radical rethinking of the economics of poverty and an intimate view of life on 99 cents a day. Poor Economics shows that creating a world without poverty begins with understanding the daily decisions facing the poor.

Author : Steven D. Gjerstad,Vernon L. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521198097

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Rethinking Housing Bubbles by Steven D. Gjerstad,Vernon L. Smith Pdf

Steven D. Gjerstad and Nobel Laureate Vernon L. Smith demonstrate the critical role that household and bank balance sheets play in economic cycles.

Author : Danielle Dreilinger
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781324004509

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The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live by Danielle Dreilinger Pdf

The surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics. The term “home economics” may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as professors, engineers, chemists, and businesspeople. And it has something to teach us today. In the surprising, often fiercely feminist and always fascinating The Secret History of Home Economics, Danielle Dreilinger traces the field’s history from Black colleges to Eleanor Roosevelt to Okinawa, from a Betty Crocker brigade to DIY techies. These women—and they were mostly women—became chemists and marketers, studied nutrition, health, and exercise, tested parachutes, created astronaut food, and took bold steps in childhood development and education. Home economics followed the currents of American culture even as it shaped them. Dreilinger brings forward the racism within the movement along with the strides taken by women of color who were influential leaders and innovators. She also looks at the personal lives of home economics’ women, as they chose to be single, share lives with other women, or try for egalitarian marriages. This groundbreaking and engaging history restores a denigrated subject to its rightful importance, as it reminds us that everyone should learn how to cook a meal, balance their account, and fight for a better world.

Author : Rudolf Steiner
Publisher : SteinerBooks
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781621480501

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Rethinking Economics by Rudolf Steiner Pdf

Rudolf Steiner gave this complex sequence of dense, subtle, multileveled lectures and seminars to students of economics in Dornach, Switzerland, during the summer of 1922. The course reflects a lifetime of thinking on the subject and marks the conclusion of his intense five-year period of activism in the service of social, political, and economic issues. During this time, which began as World War I was ending in 1917, he worked tirelessly to promote the cause of what he called “threefolding” (Dreigliederung), by which he meant rethinking the social order on the basis of clear separation and independence of the three fundamental spheres of activity that make up a society. He proposed three independent systems: (1) an autonomous rights sphere (limited to judicial and political matters), (2) an autonomous economic sphere (cooperative or associative by nature), and (3) an autonomous spiritual-cultural sphere. The autonomy of these three spheres, he believed, would make possible a free, healthy, productive society and open the possibility of a lasting peace. Rethinking Economics is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the true nature of an economy and how it works. Steiner presents the basic elements of what it would take to create a just, socially responsible, and ecologically aware economy today.

Author : Josh Ryan-Collins
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509523290

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Why Can't You Afford a Home? by Josh Ryan-Collins Pdf

Throughout the Western world, a whole generation is being priced out of the housing market. For millions of people, particularly millennials, the basic goal of acquiring decent, affordable accommodation is a distant dream. Leading economist Josh Ryan-Collins argues that to understand this crisis, we must examine a crucial paradox at the heart of modern capitalism. The interaction of private home ownership and a lightly regulated commercial banking system leads to a feedback cycle. Unlimited credit and money flows into an inherently finite supply of property, which causes rising house prices, declining home ownership, rising inequality and debt, stagnant growth and financial instability. Radical reforms are needed to break the cycle. This engaging and topical book will be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand why they can’t find an affordable home, and what we can do about it.

Author : Louis-Philippe Rochon,Sergio Rossi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781784717216

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A Modern Guide to Rethinking Economics by Louis-Philippe Rochon,Sergio Rossi Pdf

Since the beginning of the 21st century, there has been an unprecedented move towards ‘rethinking economics’. This book contributes to this worldwide discussion by providing readers at all levels with thoughtful contributions on a range of economic topics. The book includes chapters on rethinking fiscal and monetary policies, international trade, the role of the state, money, growth, the environment, development policies, energy, healthcare and more. Written by top experts in their respective fields, this book will be useful to students and faculty who want to not only rethink economics, but also to offer an alternative and coherent economic analysis to the orthodoxy.

Author : Wahiduddin Mahmud
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000485080

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Markets, Morals and Development by Wahiduddin Mahmud Pdf

This book presents, or rather “re-presents”, the intricacies of a developing economy in the light of recent theoretical developments in economics while also providing a fresh perspective on the perceived inadequacies of the discipline in addressing the discontents of the contemporary global economic order. The book argues that there is scope for economics to be a more humane discipline and more relevant to contemporary economic problems by embracing new ideas, including those from other disciplines. It attempts to show how economic concepts and theories can be contextualised to help better understand real-life economic phenomena; how to rethink the ways in which the market economy can address the moral issues of human wellbeing and social justice; and, overall, how the study of economics and public discourses on economic issues can be made more engaging as well as more relevant to the problems of developing countries. Based on public lectures given by the author in Dhaka, and using illustrations from Bangladesh, India and other countries, the book offers an authoritative understanding of diverse economic realities by taking a fresh look at the familiar. Comprehensive and accessible, the book will be of interest to students and researchers of economics, development economics and policy, sociology and business studies as well as to journalists, public intellectuals and policymakers in developing countries.

Author : Ha-Joon Chang
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843311102

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Rethinking Development Economics by Ha-Joon Chang Pdf

This title represents the most forward thinking and comprehensive review of development economics currently available.

Author : Bill Bigelow,Bob Peterson
Publisher : Rethinking Schools
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780942961287

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Rethinking Globalization by Bill Bigelow,Bob Peterson Pdf

Presents lessons and activities covering the topics of social justice and globalization.

Author : Joe Earle,Cahal Moran,Zach Ward-Perkins
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780141986883

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The Econocracy by Joe Earle,Cahal Moran,Zach Ward-Perkins Pdf

A century ago, the idea of 'the economy' didn't exist. Now economics is the supreme ideology of our time, with its own rules and language. The trouble is, most of us can't speak it. This is damaging democracy. Dangerous agendas are hidden inside mathematical wrappers; controversial policies are presented as 'proven' by the models of economic 'science'. Government is being turned over to a publicly unaccountable technocratic elite. The Econocracy reveals that economics is too important to be left to the economists - and shows us how we can begin to participate more fully in the decisions which affect all our futures.

Author : Radhika Balakrishnan,James Heintz,Diane Elson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317572114

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Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice by Radhika Balakrishnan,James Heintz,Diane Elson Pdf

The dominant approach to economic policy has so far failed to adequately address the pressing challenges the world faces today: extreme poverty, widespread joblessness and precarious employment, burgeoning inequality, and large-scale environmental threats. This message was brought home forcibly by the 2008 global economic crisis. Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice shows how human rights have the potential to transform economic thinking and policy-making with far-reaching consequences for social justice. The authors make the case for a new normative and analytical framework, based on a broader range of objectives which have the potential to increase the substantive freedoms and choices people enjoy in the course of their lives and not on not upon narrow goals such as the growth of gross domestic product. The book covers a range of issues including inequality, fiscal and monetary policy, international development assistance, financial markets, globalization, and economic instability. This new approach allows for a complex interaction between individual rights, collective rights and collective action, as well as encompassing a legal framework which offers formal mechanisms through which unjust policy can be protested. This highly original and accessible book will be essential reading for human rights advocates, economists, policy-makers and those working on questions of social justice.