2021 HOPE Conference: “New Historical Perspectives on Women and Economics”

“New Historical Perspectives on Women and Economics”

Organized by Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche (University of Cambridge), Evelyn L. Forget (University of Manitoba), and John Singleton (University of Rochester)

Tuesday, July 6, 2021

Session 1: 10:00 – 11:00                                                          
Giandomenica Becchio (University of Torino) – Feminist Economics versus Gender Neoclassical Economics: The Case of Barbara Bergmann’s Contribution on the Theory of Marriage

Session 2: 11:15 – 12:15
Sarah Small (Colorado State University) – Tracing Barbara Bergmann’s Occupational Crowding Hypothesis: A Historical Retrospective

 Break: 12:15 – 13:00

 Session 3: 13:00 – 14:00
Dan Hirschman (Brown University) – “Controlling for What?” Folk Economics, Legal Consciousness and the Gender Wage Gap in the United States

 

Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Session 1: 9:30 – 10:30
Christina Laskaridis (SOAS University of London) – Writing History as a Way of Life: Margaret Garritsen de Vries and the International Monetary Fund

Session 2: 10:45 – 11:45                                                          
Camilla Orozco Espinel (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne) and Andrès Guiot (University of Oxford) – The Trajectories of Four Women during the Early History of the Professional Development of Economics in Colombia, c. 1950–1970

Break: 11:45 – 13:00

Session 3: 13:00 – 14:00
Marianne Johnson (University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh) – Elinor Ostrom: Case Studies, Academic Careers, and a Nobel Prize

Session 4: 14:15– 15:15
Jennifer Burns (Stanford University) – Milton Friedman Was a Woman

 

Thursday, July 8, 2021

 Session 1: 9:30 – 10:30
Erin Hengel (University College London), Sarah Louisa Phythian-Adams (University of Liverpool), and Christophe Brunet – Women in Economics: A Quantitative History of Economic Research by Women

Session 2: 10:45 – 11:45                                                          
Camilla Orozco Espinel (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne) and Rebeca Gomez Bétancourt (Université Lyon) – Feminist Economics: Genesis and Transformation of a Sub-field of Economics

Break: 11:45 – 13:00

Session 3: 13:00 – 14:00
Jennifer Cohen – The Queen of the Social Sciences: The Reproduction of a [White] “Man’s Field”