Rethinking Home Economics

Rethinking Home Economics
Author: Sarah Stage
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2018-07-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1501729942

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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.

Rethinking Home Economics

Rethinking Home Economics
Author: Sarah Stage
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1997
Genre: Home economics
ISBN: 9780801481758

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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.

Rethinking Home Economics

Rethinking Home Economics
Author: Sarah Stage
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Home economics
ISBN: 9780804181754

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Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing

Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing
Author: Josh Ryan-Collins
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2017-02-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1786991217

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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.

Rethinking Economics

Rethinking Economics
Author: Liliann Fischer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2017-09-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1315407248

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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.

Poor Economics

Poor Economics
Author: Abhijit V. Banerjee
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2012-03-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1610391608

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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.

Rethinking Housing Bubbles

Rethinking Housing Bubbles
Author: Steven D. Gjerstad
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2014-05-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 113995203X

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In this highly original piece of work, Steven D. Gjerstad and Nobel Laureate Vernon L. Smith analyze the role of housing and its associated mortgage financing as a key element of economic cycles. The authors combine data from both laboratory and real markets to provide insight into the bubble propensity of real-world economic actors and use novel historical analysis on the Great Recession, the Great Depression, and all of the post-World War II recessions to establish the critical roles of housing, private-capital investment, and household and private institutional balance sheets in economic cycles. They develop a model that incorporates household balance sheets and bank balance sheets and offers insights based on this analysis concerning policy going forward, effectively changing the way economists think about economic cycles.

Stir It Up

Stir It Up
Author: Megan J. Elias
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2010-08-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812221214

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Stir It Up explores the changing aims of home economics while putting the phenomena of Martha Stewart, Rachael Ray, Ty Pennington, and the "Mommy Wars" into historical context.

A Modern Guide to Rethinking Economics

A Modern Guide to Rethinking Economics
Author: Louis-Philippe Rochon
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2017-04-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1784717215

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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.

Rethinking the Economics of War

Rethinking the Economics of War
Author: Cynthia J. Arnson
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2005-10-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0801882974

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This collection of essays questions the adequacy of explaining today's internal armed conflicts purely in terms of economic factors and re-establishes the importance of identity and grievances in creating and sustaining such wars. Countries studied include Lebanon, Angola, Colombia and Afghanistan.