Books by Vicky Pryce
“Pryce is showing how, even by the logic of capitalism, there’s a problem. She argues that the subordination of women causes, and is caused by, market failure. And that, therefore, it should be unacceptable from an economist’s point of view—even if you are a traditional, Neoclassical economist—because the consequences of excluding women from the economy, the way that world society has, has pretty dire consequences for society. That’s one of my own messages too. I think people just don’t realise that it’s something that hurts all of us every day.” Read more...
The best books on Gender Inequality
Linda Scott, Economist
Interviews where books by Vicky Pryce were recommended
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Women vs Capitalism: Why We Can't Have It All in a Free Market Economy
by Vicky Pryce -
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
by Caroline Criado Perez -
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Sex and World Peace
by Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Chad Emmett, Mary Caprioli & Valerie Hudson -
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Delusions of Gender
by Cordelia Fine -
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Greed, Lust and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas
by Nancy Folbre
The best books on Gender Inequality, recommended by Linda Scott
The best books on Gender Inequality, recommended by Linda Scott
Women produce about 40% of global GDP and more than half of the world’s food. But their economic and social contribution has too often gone unrecorded—subsumed into ‘household earnings’ or otherwise disregarded. Here, the Oxford academic and author of The Double X Economy Linda Scott selects five of the best books on gender inequality, and reveals how the empowerment of women might just be the route to world peace.
