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Author Waring, Marilyn, 1952-

Title If women counted : a new feminist economics / Marilyn Waring ; introduction by Gloria Steinem
Published San Francisco : Harper Collins, 1988

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Description xx, 386 pages ; 22 cm
Contents A woman's reckoning : an introduction to the international economic system -- A calling to account : who developed the UNSNA [UN System of National Accounts] and why -- The boundary of conception : how the UNSNA makes women invisible -- Nothing sexist here : statisticians in action -- The statistical conspiracy : sources for the national accounts -- Villainy and incompetence : problems economists see in their own system -- The value of death : how war, poverty, and poisons help the economy -- A value on your time : women, children, and the economics of reproduction -- The eye of the beholder : the UNSNA as applied patriarchy -- "Your economic theory makes no sense" : economics and the explotation of the planet -- If counting were the limit of intelligence : my search for an alternative to the UNSNA -- Glimpsing the whole : a new model for global aconomics -- Epilogue : a call to action
Analysis Child rearing
Economic conditions
Housework
Key item
National accounts
Overseas item
Sex discrimination
Women
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [349]-364)
Subject Sex discrimination against women.
Sex discrimination in national income accounting.
Women -- Economic conditions.
Women -- Employment.
Women -- Social conditions.
LC no. zbn90040731
ISBN 0062509330 (hbk)
0062509403 (paperback)
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