A Discussion of Aida H. Hozic and Jacqui True’s Scandalous Economics: Gender and the Politics of Financial Crises

“Critical analyses of the global financial crisis of 2008 (GFC) have neglected the ways in which structural inequalities around gender and race factor into (and indeed make possible) the current economic order. Scandalous Economics breaks new ground by arguing that an explicitly gendered approach to...

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Published in:Perspectives on politics 2017-06, Vol.15 (2), p.511-512
Main Author: Drezner, Daniel W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Economic crisis
Feminism
Financial institutions
Gender
Gender inequality
Globalization
International finance
Macroeconomics
Neoliberalism
Political economy
Political scientists
Politics
Race
Recessions
Reforms
Review Symposium: Gender and Financial Crisis
Scandals
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Summary:“Critical analyses of the global financial crisis of 2008 (GFC) have neglected the ways in which structural inequalities around gender and race factor into (and indeed make possible) the current economic order. Scandalous Economics breaks new ground by arguing that an explicitly gendered approach to the GFC and its ongoing effects can help us to understand both the root causes of the crisis and the failure to significantly reform financial institutions and macroeconomic models.” These words, from the blurb on the back cover of Scandalous Economics, nicely summarize the book’s topic and the general approach to it. Because the book contains contributions from a number of the top political scientists writing about the gendering of political economy, and because this topic is such an important one, we have invited a range of political scientists to comment on the book and on the broader theme of the gendering of political economy.
ISSN:1537-5927
1541-0986
DOI:10.1017/S1537592717000214