Feminists Theorize International Political Economy

Bedford, Kate; Shirin, M.

doi:10.1086/652910

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“…Wall Street is one of the most male-dominated bastions in the business world … Aside from issues of fairness, there's evidence that the result is second-rate decision-making. (Kristof, 2009) However, many feminists have argued that getting more women into decisionmaking positions in large banks would not by itself prevent recurrence of this kind of crisis (see, e.g., Bedford and Rai, 2010). It would also be necessary to change the way that banks are regulated, and to change underlying structures of business and society, including the way that finance relates to production and reproduction.…”

Section: Spheres Of Finance Production and Reproductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transcending the Impact of the Financial Crisis in the United Kingdom: Towards Plan F—a Feminist Economic Strategy

Pearson¹,

Elson²

2015

Feminist Review

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This paper sets out a framework for understanding the impacts of the financial crisis and its aftermath that is based on the idea of three interacting spheres: finance, production and reproduction. All of these spheres are gendered and globalised. The gendered impact of the current crisis is discussed in terms of the impact on unemployment, employment protection and security, public sector services, social security benefits, pensions, and the real value of wages and living standards. Drawing on the analysis of the UK Women's Budget Group, the paper demonstrates that the biggest falls in disposable income as the result of austerity policies by the Conservative-led government since 2010 have been borne by the most vulnerable women-lone mothers, single women pensioners and single women without children. Working-age couples without children have been least affected. The paper then goes on to discuss what an alternative economic strategy, based on feminist political economy, might look like. It utilises the notion of the 'reproductive bargain', first developed to understand the transition in Cuba in the 1990s.It sets out a possible feminist economic strategy that insists on the incorporation of reproductive and care work into the analysis of alternative economic policies and links employment, wages and social security payments to public provisioning of transgenerational reproductive services. It suggests feasible strategies to finance the proposed Plan F-a feminist economic strategy.

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Section: Spheres Of Finance Production and Reproductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transcending the Impact of the Financial Crisis in the United Kingdom: Towards Plan F—a Feminist Economic Strategy

Pearson¹,

Elson²

2015

Feminist Review

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“…After a relative lull in the 1990s and early 2000s reproduction has once again become an important focus for feminist researchers, especially for those working within a political economy perspective (Bakker 2007;Bakker and Gill 2003;Bakker and Silvey 2008;Bedford and Rai 2010;Bergeron 2011;Ferguson 2010;Luxton and Bezanson 2006;Steans and Tepe 2010) but also in a range of social science disciplines, such as anthropology (Bjeren 1997;Constable 2009), geography (Mitchell et al 2004;Strauss 2012) and international relations (Peterson 2003). 5 These debates have focused on reproduction as it touches on a range of sectors, sites and activities particularly in the context of neoliberalisation.…”

Section: Analysing Reproductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction

2015

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“…La teoría feminista desafía todos estos presupuestos y enfatiza el valor del trabajo doméstico para la reproducción social (Benería, 1979;Peterson, 2009;Barker y Feiner, 2010;Bedford y Rai, 2010;Kofman, 2012;Carrasco, 2013). Desde estos planteamientos se critica tanto la visión economicista del trabajo, restringida a las actividades en las que media el mercado, como sus principios convencionales, integrando dentro de dicha noción todo lo referido al cuidado; esto es, aquella parcela específica del trabajo, relacionada con la calidad de vida de las personas y su cuidado personal directo o indirecto (Folbre, 2006).…”

Section: Economía Y Cuidado En El Pensamiento Económicounclassified

Tratamiento económico y modelización del cuidado

Fernández

Marrón

Moreno

2017

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Care is an expansive concept that includes the set of activities aimed at ensuring the survival and well-being of the population. This article aims to analyze and characterize care as an economic good whose provision is made through the market, public administration and households, with different implications and treatments in these three spheres. To this end, once the problem posed by this good from a multidisciplinary perspective is presented, we will focus on the characteristics that economic theory gives to economic goods and discuss how each of them manifests in the case of care. We will also analyze care's supply and demand curves, the agents involved and its market equilibrium. The economic description leads us to consider that the behavior of this market deviates substantially from the characteristics of the so-called perfect competition market and it also indicates the need to carry out a social reorganization of care. Key words: care, economic analysis, economic good, care market, demand and supply of care. Resumen: El cuidado es un concepto expansivo que incluye el conjunto de actividades tendentes a garantizar la supervivencia y el bienestar de la población. Este artículo se propone analizar y caracterizar el cuidado como bien económico cuya provisión se realiza a través del mercado, administración pública y hogar, con implicaciones y tratamientos diferentes en estos tres ámbitos. Para ello, una vez presentada la problemática planteada desde una perspectiva pluridisciplinar, nos centraremos en las características que la teoría económica otorga a los bienes económicos y discutiremos cómo cada una de ellas se manifiesta en el cuidado. También se analizarán sus curvas de oferta y demanda, los agentes implicados y el equilibrio del mercado. La descripción económica realizada nos conduce a considerar que el comportamiento de este mercado es claramente imperfecto y además nos indica la necesidad de efectuar una reorganización social del cuidado. Palabras clave: cuidado, análisis económico, bien económico, mercado de cuidado, demanda y oferta de cuidado.

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Feminists Theorize International Political Economy

Cited by 75 publications

References 30 publications

Transcending the Impact of the Financial Crisis in the United Kingdom: Towards Plan F—a Feminist Economic Strategy

Transcending the Impact of the Financial Crisis in the United Kingdom: Towards Plan F—a Feminist Economic Strategy

Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction

Tratamiento económico y modelización del cuidado

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