Best, Michael; Humphries, Jane - In: Feminist Economics 9 (2003) 1, pp. 47-73
We re-read a foundational work, The Theory of the Growth of the Firm by Edith Penrose, not to identify the androcentric bias but instead to recover a challenge to such bias. Our purpose is to show in Penrose an alternative view of human "nature" and revulsion from "Cartesian" dualisms. At the...