Am glad to attest that Margaret Reid's book, Housing and Income, is close to
the best study of the subject I have read. She skillfully avoids the trap of
"Regression Fallacy" by using area units as her instrumental variable. Then
she goes further and avoids the attitude, prevailing at Chicago at the time,
to use such statistical sophistication solely to trash progressive income
taxation, in a tendentious way. She lets the reader draw her or his own
conclusions.
I never knew her, or why she left Chicago, but it was a great loss.
Mason Gaffney
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This may be a later period than the information you need, but this article
is about to the life and achievements of Margaret G. Reid, who received her
Ph. D. in economics from Chicago in 1931. Reid became a full professor there
after teaching elsewhere. She had a most interesting career and influenced
people like Gary Becker, Franco Modigliani et al.
I had tried to send a link, but it's access is restricted to
members/subscribers. Here is the information: it was published in
Feminist Economics 2(3), 1996, 17-36. Perhaps I can send it as an attachment
off-list.
ABSTRACT
Feminist critics of mainstream economics, and of the neoclassical paradigm
in particular, have focused primarily on exposing and questioning the
gender biases and androcentric claims to neutrality, objectivity and
rationality
of the most male-dominated discipline among the social sciences. The
scientific method and mathematical sophistry so cherished in the discipline
have also come under severe attack from several quarters. However, despite
the intellectual ferment and some practical gains for women that these
criticisms have engendered, even today the substantial contributions several
women scholars have made to the field of economics are not well known or
fully acknowledged. This paper traces and highlights Margaret Reid's
contributions to the development of some core theories in economics. While
several of her male colleagues whose work she had inspired or contributed
to have been awarded the Nobel Prize, the discipline of economics still owes
a huge debt to Reid and to several other women economists.
Sumitra Shah
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Subject: [SHOE] the first women economist: help
I'm writing a paper with a colleague (Smerilli) on the women contribution to
economics (and more in general on the feminine dimension in economics), but
it is very difficult to find a sort of history of the early days, because
most of the references I found begin the history with Johan Robinson, Anna
Schwartz, plus some references to Mill's and Marshall's wives. In
particular I'm interested in knowing who was the first academic woman with a
tenure/position in universities in England or US or other countries.
Thanks
Luigino
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