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Centered around macho images of both “economic man” and of economists as physicist-like researchers, the economics discipline has been both extremely influential and particularly resistant to feminist influence. In this chapter, Nelson begins by describing how she followed a dual-track career strategy, establishing mainstream credentials while at the same time helping to found the field of feminist economics. Nelson’s early contributions were both intellectual—critiquing the dominant definition, models, and methods of economics—and organizational and took inspiration from work in many disciplines. The chapter goes on to briefly describe her later contributions to feminist work on the economics of care, ecological economics, behavioral economics, and the theory of the firm. She concludes the chapter with a discussion of some concerns and hopes for the future.

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Nelson, J.A. (2020). Economics, Considered. In: Fenstermaker, S., Stewart, A.J. (eds) Gender, Considered. Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48501-6_10

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