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.”






