approaches to this subject. Contributors address topics of their choice on the concept of rationality in economics, and the …Ideas linked to rational choice theory started to appear frequently in the economics literature in the 1960s and 1970s …, but the attention given to rationality widened to include commentators presenting far-reaching appraisals and critiques …

This is the first book to examine the central tenets of economics from a feminist point of view. In these original … essays, the authors suggest that the discipline of economics could be improved by freeing itself from masculine biases …. Beyond Economic Man raises questions about the discipline not because economics is too objective but because it is not …