If women counted : a new feminist economics / Marilyn Waring ; introduction by Gloria Steinem.
Record details
- ISBN: 0062509330
- Physical Description: xx, 386 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: San Francisco : Harper & Row, [1988]
- Copyright: ©1988
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Bibliography: pages 349-364. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | A woman's reckoning : an introduction to the international economic system -- A calling to account : who developed the UNSNA [UN System of National Accounts] and why -- The boundary of conception : how the UNSNA makes women invisible -- Nothing sexist here : statisticians in action -- The statistical conspiracy : sources for the national accounts -- Villainy and incompetence : problems economists see in their own system -- The value of death : how war, poverty, and poisons help the economy -- A value on your time : women, children, and the economics of reproduction -- The eye of the beholder : the UNSNA as applied patriarchy -- "Your economic theory makes no sense" : economics and the explotation of the planet -- If counting were the limit of intelligence : my search for an alternative to the UNSNA -- Glimpsing the whole : a new model for global aconomics -- Epilogue : a call to action. |
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| Subject: | Sex discrimination in national income accounting. Women > Economic conditions. Women. Womyn. |
| Genre: | Encyclopedias. |
