1st Edition

An Introduction to Gender and Wellbeing in Microeconomics

By Nicky Pouw Copyright 2018
164 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

164 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

An Introduction to Gender and Wellbeing in Microeconomics explains how to set up the basics of designing a gender-aware approach to microeconomics by constructing creative gender-aware indicators.  Using a wellbeing economics framework, the book argues that economic models should take power differences such as those inherent with gender into account, and be complemented by more qualitative... Read more

1. Introduction, 2. Economic Agency, 3. The Embedded Economy, 4. Consumption, Needs and Demands, 5. The Household Economy, 6. The Firm, 7. Markets, 8. The Community Economy, 9. The Role of the State, 10. Efficiency, Equity and Human Development, 11. Economic Growth, 12. International Economics

Biography

Nicky Pouw is an economist with over twenty years of research and teaching experience in the field of international development. She is affiliated as an Associate Professor within the Governance and Inclusive Development research programme at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.