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Book Review – The Diane Elson Reader: Gender, Development and Macroeconomic Policy.

December 25, 2025

Book Review:  Diane Elson. 2025. The Diane Elson Reader: Gender, Development and Macroeconomic Policy. Agenda Publishing.
Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD
Former Economics Professor, SRCC

Every undergraduate girl student of economics must know who is Diane Elson  and read  this book of hers. Here is a summary.

The bone of contention of Elson  is that we are not going to have a better world in terms of a gender-equitable sustainable economy unless economic analysis is “challenged and transformed so that fostering equalities (gender, class, race, ethnicity, location) becomes a central objective.”

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