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The Feminist Economics of Trade, edited by Irene Van Staveren, Diane Elson, Caren Grown and Nilufer Cagatay. Colchest: Francis Taylor Group, 2007. ISBN 978 415 43637 3, 352 pages.
This latest book from the IAFFE book series "Advances in Feminist Economics" is a compilation of 14 different theoretical, empirical and policy perspectives on the gender dimensions of international trade and globalization. The methodological plurality in the different contributions makes the book a valuable resource for students and policy makers looking for an alternative to the standard neo-classical analysis of trade and globalization.
The book begins with a critique of the standard analysis of globalization that is often derived from neo-classical theory of free markets and trade. In chapter 2, Lourdes Beneria, invoking Karl Polanyi's theme of the social construction of markets, argues that...
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