In this book, distinguished economist Edith Kuiper shows us that the history of economic thought is just that, a his-story, by telling the herstory of economic thought from the perspective of women economic writers and economists. Although some of these women were well known in their time, they were excluded from most of academic economics, and, over the past centuries, their work has been neglected, forgotten, and thus become invisible.

Why has heterodox economics not been more successful in making inroads into the mainstream? And why has “pluralist economics,” the most prominent alternative paradigm to mainstream economics, not been more successful in changing the curriculum?

This book gives a very clear overview of the history of Macroeconomics and how it has evolved. It reflects on the different perspectives and debates that have defined the field, with valuable insight into the history and theory of economic policy.

Gerald Friedman UMassEconomics University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Der Vortrag von Michaela Haase bietet eine Einführung in die Wissenschaftstheorie, mit besonderem Bezug zu den Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Sie erläutert dabei die Argumente für Theorienpluralismus aus Sicht von Popper, Kuhn und Lakatos, geht auf den Instrumentalismus Friedmans ein und vergleicht die Ansätze Hayeks und Hempels zu wissenschaftlichen Methoden.