This paper offers a historical perspective on economists' treatment of women, through exploring the case of Paul … Samuelson. Some of his remarks about women in the economy and in economics were famously considered deprecatory. We place them … in the context of the discussions of discrimination in his textbook, Economics, and his interactions with female students …

never a single research program, but involved economists with very different aims who developed the basic ideas about … never a single research program, but involved economists with very different aims who developed the basic ideas about …