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A feminist response to Stephen Marglin’s Premises for a New Economy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2023

Wendy Harcourt
Wendy Harcourt*
Affiliation:
Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Wendy Harcourt, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Kortenaerkade 12, The Hague, 2518 AX, The Netherlands. Email: harcourt@iss.nl
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Abstract

In response to Stephen Marglin’s call for new economies, the article points to the strong and vibrant tradition of feminist scholarship inside and outside academe, which is exploring alternatives to capitalism. The article takes up the concepts of meshworks, politics of place, feminist political ecology and community economies. It argues that feminist approaches are contributing to a new analytic that goes beyond developmentalism and recognises the importance of building a new economics based on the many progressive alternatives that are being imagined and articulated in local economic practices.

Keywords

A13J16O10R58Alternativesdecolonialityecologygenderlocal economies
Type
Symposium Articles
Information
The Economic and Labour Relations Review , Volume 25 , Issue 4: Symposium: A new global economics? Environment, development, equity , December 2014 , pp. 603 - 611
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2014

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