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Market, State and Feminism

The Economics of Feminist Policy

Author: Nancy Bertaux, Graham Dawson, Linda Watson-Brown, Sue Hatt and Arthur Baxter   Series: Elgar Monographs

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This text offers an interdisciplinary critique of the "free market backlash" - the view that free-market economics can improve the position, status and well-being of women. The authors challenge the view that equal opportunities legislation distorts the market and advocate policy intervention as a positive and enabling force for equal opportunities.

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This text offers an interdisciplinary critique of the "free market backlash" - the view that free-market economics can improve the position, status and well-being of women. The authors challenge the view that equal opportunities legislation distorts the market and advocate policy intervention as a positive and enabling force for equal opportunities.

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This text offers an interdisciplinary critique of the "free market backlash" - the view that free-market economics can improve the position, status and well-being of women. The authors challenge the view that equal opportunities legislation distorts the market and advocate policy intervention as a positive and enabling force for equal opportunities.

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“'Market, State and Feminism, criticizes the free market backlash that is based on core principles about how markets work, how individual agents behave and how the state influences the functioning of a market economy. The book powerfully refutes the view that free market economics can improve the status and well-being of women.'”

'Market, State and Feminism, criticizes the free market backlash that is based on core principles about how markets work, how individual agents behave and how the state influences the functioning of a market economy. The book powerfully refutes the view that free market economics can improve the status and well-being of women.'

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About the Author

Graham Dawson, Visiting Fellow, Max Beloff Centre for the Study of Liberty, The University of Buckingham, UK and Sue Hatt, University of the West of England, UK with Linda Watson-Brown, formerly of University of Edinburgh, UK, Arthur Baxter, formerly of the University of the West of England, UK and Nancy Bertaux, Xavier University, US

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Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Published
26th October 2000
Pages
160
ISBN
9781858982311

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