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

Edith Kuiper is Associate Professor and Chair of the Economics Department at the State University of New York at New Paltz. 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). 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. 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.  We cover the following in this conversation: Edith's book: a Herstory of Economics The field of economics and the lack of attention to women, their economic issues and interests How this has a lasting impact on women's pay and their personal wealth to this day Women's work, often undervalued and underpaid The world of finance and why women have been largely absent And why we need more women in economics and how women can be made to feel more welcome. ***