Böcker i The Gendered Economy-serien

A major challenge to the view that prostitution and the "sex economy" can ever be normalised as a legitimate economic business in which women have control, and as employment comparable to other forms of low-paid work.

A significant critique of neoliberal economics that shows how the free market perspective is tied up with an androcentric understanding of the economy which overlooks the role of social reproduction. The book identifies alternatives for a more gender equitable, environmentally and socially sustainable progressive economic policy.

This important book provides a path-breaking analysis of the gendered implication of financial governance, financialization, monetary policy, and financial crisis and presents options for rebalancing the financial system to make it inclusive and fair.

James Heintz tackles the shortcomings of macroeconomic policies in relation to gender dynamics, such as ignoring the valuable and quantifiable role that the unpaid work of women for their families contributes to the economy, and suggests new ways of framing macroeconomic concepts.