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  • FEMINISM AND GENDER RESEARCH IN JAPAN
    DIANE ELSON
    There is a large gap between Japan’s ranking on indicators of economic development and on indicators of gender equality. This book helps us to understand why. The chapters in this volume illuminate important dimensions of gender inequality in Japan – in relation to class, and in comparison to other countries. The book considers the relation of gender inequality to neoliberal po...

    $1,160.00

  • RETHINKING ECONOMIC POLICY FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
    RADHIKA BALAKRISHNAN / JAMES HEINTZ / DIANE ELSON
    The dominant approach to economic policy has so far failed to adequately address the pressing challenges the world faces today: extreme poverty, widespread joblessness and precarious employment, burgeoning inequality, and large-scale environmental threats. This message was brought home forcibly by the 2008 global economic crisis. Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice sh...

    $1,620.00

  • HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE CAPABILITIES APPROACH
    ELSON, DIANE / FUKUDA-PARR, SAKIKO / VIZARD, POLLY
    Among several contesting views about the purpose of development and how progress should be evaluated, human rights and capabilities (or human development) stand out as two approaches that are concerned first and foremost with the well-being of individuals, their freedom, dignity and empowerment. These two approaches contrast sharply with the dominant development frameworks that...

    $1,560.00

  • QUESTIONING FINANCIAL GOVERNANCE FROM A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE
    YOUNG, BRIGITTE / BAKKER, ISABELLA / ELSON, DIANE
    Questioning Financial Governance from a Feminist Perspective brings together feminist economists and feminist political economists from different countries located in North America and Europe to analyze the ‘strategic silence’ about gender in fiscal and monetary policy, and financial regulation. This silence reflects a set of assumptions that the key instruments of financial go...

    $1,460.00