Mathematics for Business or Beyond Economic Man

Mathematics for Business

Author: Stanley A A Salzman

The Eighth Edition of Mathematics for Business continues to provide solid, practical, and current coverage of the mathematical topics students must master to succeed in business today. The text begins with a review of basic mathematics and goes on to introduce key business topics in an algebra-based context.

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New edition of a standard text covering basic as well as accounting math--banking, payroll, taxes, risk management; retail math--buying, markup, markdown and inventory control; finance--interest, notes and bank discount, multiple-payment plans, annuities, amortization; and advanced accounting--depreciation, financial statements, profit distribution, business statistics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics

Author: Marianne A Ferber

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 objective
enough. The contributors—nine economists, a sociologist, and a
philosopher—discuss the extent to which gender has influenced both
the range of subjects economists have studied and the way in which
scholars have conducted their studies. They investigate, for example,
how masculine concerns underlie economists' concentration on market as
opposed to household activities and their emphasis on individual
choice to the exclusion of social constraints on choice. This focus
on masculine interests, the contributors contend, has biased the
definition and boundaries of the discipline, its central assumptions,
and its preferred rhetoric and methods. However, the aim of this book
is not to reject current economic practices, but to broaden them,
permitting a fuller understanding of economic phenomena.
These essays examine current economic practices in the light of a
feminist understanding of gender differences as socially constructed
rather than based on essential male and female characteristics. The
authors use this concept of gender, along with feminist readings of
rhetoric and the history of science, as well as postmodernist theory
and personal experience as economists, to analyze the boundaries,
assumptions, and methods of neoclassical, socialist, and
institutionalist economics.
The contributors are Rebecca M. Blank, Paula England, Marianne A.
Ferber, Nancy Folbre, Ann L. Jennings, Helen E. Longino, Donald N.
McCloskey, Julie A. Nelson, Robert M. Solow, Diana Strassmann, and
Rhonda M. Williams.

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In seven essays and four discussions, economists seek to improve economic analysis by ridding the discipline of the biases due to the centrality of distinctively masculine concerns. Among the topics are the difference between studying choice and provisioning, the rhetoric of disciplinary authority, and conjective economics. Paper edition (unseen), $12.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Introduction: The Social Construction of Economics and the Social Construction of Gender	1
1	The Study of Choice or the Study of Provisioning? Gender and the Definition of Economics	23
2	The Separative Self: Androcentric Bias in Neoclassical Assumptions	37
3	Not a Free Market: The Rhetoric of Disciplinary Authority in Economics	54
4	Some Consequences of a Conjective Economics	69
5	Socialism, Feminist and Scientific	94
6	Public or Private? Institutional Economics and Feminism	111
7	Discussion and Challenges	131
	What Should Mainstream Economists Learn from Feminist Theory?	133
	Race, Deconstruction, and the Emergent Agenda of Feminist Economic Theory	144
	Feminist Theory, Women's Experience, and Economics	153
	Economics for Whom?	158
	Contributors	169
	Index	173