Getting past “rational man/emotional woman”: comments on research programs in happiness economics and interpersonal relations |
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Authors: | Julie A Nelson |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA 02125, USA |
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Abstract: | Orthodox neoclassical economics portrays reason as far more important than emotion, autonomy as more characteristic of economic
life than social connection, and, more generally, things culturally and cognitively associated with masculinity as more central
than things associated with femininity. Research from contemporary neuroscience suggests that such biases are related to certain
automatic processes in the brain, and feminist scholarship suggests ways of getting beyond them. The “happiness” and “interpersonal
relations” economics research programs have made substantial progress in overcoming a number of these biases, bringing into
consideration by economists a wide range of phenomena which were previously neglected. Analysis from a feminist economics
perspective suggests several fronts on which research could most profitably continue. |
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