#GAReads | 5 Economists Redefining… Everything. Oh Yes, And They're Women

Mariana Mazzucato. Photo credit: Simon Fraser University - Communications & Marketing [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

“5 Economists Redefining… Everything. Oh Yes, And They're Women”:

Few economists become household names. Last century, it was John Maynard Keynes or Milton Friedman. Today, Thomas Piketty has become the economists’ poster-boy. Yet listen to the buzz, and it is five female economists who deserve our attention. They are revolutionising their field by questioning the meaning of everything from ‘value’ and ‘debt’ to ‘growth’ and ‘GDP.’ Esther Duflo, Stephanie Kelton, Mariana Mazzucato, Carlota Perez and Kate Raworth are united in one thing: their amazement at the way economics has been defined and debated to date. Their incredulity is palpable.

Read Avivah Wittenberg-Cox’s full article at Forbes here…