International Women’s Day and Heterodox Economics Scholarship
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International Women’s Day
and Heterodox Economics Scholarship
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Every year, International Women’s Day (IWD), celebrated on the 8th March, serves as a reminder of the ongoing struggles for gender equality, social justice, and economic empowerment.
The day is a reminder of a system that continues to oppress women, particularly those at the intersections of race, class, and gender. Capitalism thrives on exploitation, extracting labour and resources from marginalised communities while excluding them from wealth and power. Women, especially those in the Global South and working-class sectors, bear the brunt of this system.
Heterodox economics, pluralist in its approach, questions the current capitalist system and its underlying monist theory that cements the status quo of exclusion, extraction and exploitation, erasing space, gender, race, history and unequal power from economic discussions.
Alternatively, heterodox economics offers workable solutions to a failing system necessitating its replacement. The heterodox scholarship can show us how IWD is much more than flowers, hashtags, or “women’s issues only”: it provides a robust and critical lens to understand the deeper structural forces of social provisioning that shape women’s lives globally.
The core of heterodox economics contains analyses that draw from, or are concerned with:
- Feminist Political Economy and Social Reproduction
- Structural, Regional, and Distributional Inequalities
- Inflation and Households
- Exploitation and Unequal Exchange
- Colonialism and Global Economic Structures
- Labour Markets
- Neglected Economic Thinkers and Approaches
- Critique of Capitalism
Curious to find out more? Here’s how AHE Management Committee members investigate some of these issues in their single and co-authored works:
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Feminist Political Economy and Social Reproduction
Ines Heck: “Not so diseased after all? A feminist economics perspective on the cost disease in social services”
Surbhi Kesar: “Pluralizing social reproduction approaches”
Susan Newman: Art Exhibition “This is Essential Work”
Susan Newman: “Nurture commodified? An investigation into commercial human milk supply chains” and “Feminist global political economies of work and social reproduction”
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Structural, Regional, and Distributional Inequalities
José Coronado: “Local and Spillover Effects of Trade on Structural Transformation: Evidence from Brazil”
Manuel García Dellacasa: “Residential Segregation and Women’s Labor Market Participation: The Case of Santiago De Chile”
Alexandre Gomes: “Regional economic growth and post-Keynesian economics: unfit for purpose?”
Ines Heck: “Gender segregation in vocational education and occupations in the context of digitalisation” and “A progressive excess profit tax for the European Union”
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Inflation and Households
Cecilia Lanata-Briones: “Re-constructing Official Statistics: A New Estimate of the Argentine Cost of Living Index, 1912-1943”
Cecilia Lanata-Briones: “Latin American Household Budget Surveys 1913-1970 and What They Tell Us about Economic Inequality among Households”
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Exploitation and Unequal Exchange
Sophia Kuehnlenz: “Central bank digital currencies and the international payment system: The demise of the US dollar?”
Tomas Rotta: “Value Capture and Value Production in the World Economy: A Marxian Analysis of Global Value Chains, 2000-2014”
Tomas Rotta: “Was Marx Right? Development and Exploitation in 43 Countries, 2000-2014”
Tomas Rotta: “Intellectual Monopoly and Income Inequality in the United States, 1948-2021: A Long Run Analysis”
Roberto Veneziani: “International Exploitation, Capital Export and Unequal Exchange”
Roberto Veneziani: “The dynamics of international exploitation”
Roberto Veneziani: “The dynamics of inequalities and unequal exchange of labor in intertemporal linear economies”
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Colonialism and Global Economic Structures
Devika Dutt: “No Development (Economics or Studies) Without Decolonisation”
Devika Dutt, Surbhi Kesar and Ingrid H. Kvangraven “Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction”
Ingrid H. Kvangraven: “Beyond the Stereotype: Restating the Relevance of the Dependency Research Programme”
Ingrid H. Kvangraven and Surbhi Kesar: “Standing in the way of rigor? Economics’ meeting with the decolonization agenda”
Susan Newman: “Global Value Chains and Global Value Transfer”
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Labour Markets
Armagan Gezici “An intersectional analysis of COVID-19 unemployment”
Armagan Gezici: “ Women’s labor-supply adjustment to the COVID-19 shock: An intersectional analysis”
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Neglected Economic Thinkers and Approaches
Danielle Guizzo: “When economic theory meets policy: Barbara Wootton and the creation of the British welfare state”
Danielle Guizzo: “Inclusivity in Economics: The Role of Herstories in Economic Thought”
Ingrid H. Kvangraven: “Samir Amin and beyond: the enduring relevance of Amin’s approach to political economy”
Ingrid H. Kvangraven: “Back to Dakar: Decolonizing international political economy through dependency theory”
Cecilia Lanata-Briones: “Constructing Cost of Living Indices: Ideas and Individuals, Argentina, 1918-1935”
Cecilia Lanata-Briones: “Post-Convertibility growth in Argentina: long term dynamics and limits, 1960-2008”
Andrew Mearman and Danielle Guizzo: “What is Heterodox Economics? Insights from Interviews with Leading Thinkers”
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Critique to capitalism
Sophia Kuehnlenz: “Capitalism and crises: a comparative analysis of mainstream and heterodox perceptions and related ethical considerations”
Ingrid H. Kvangraven: “Dialogues on Development: On Dependency”
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