A Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists
Edited by Robert W. Dimand, Mary Ann Dimand and Evelyn L. Forget
General Reference
- Published in print:
- 26 Oct 2000
- ISBN:
- 9781852789640
- eISBN:
- 9781843761426
- Pages:
- 520
- A Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Edith Abbott
- Ruth Alice Allen
- Shirley Ann Montag Almon
- Elizabeth Faulkner Baker
- Emily Greene Balch
- Käthe Bauer-Mengelberg
- Hilde Behrend
- Cora Berliner
- Krishna Bharadwaj
- Huguette Biaujeaud
- Clementina Black
- Rosalind (Hyman) Blauer
- Barbara Bodichon
- Olga Nikolajevna Bondareva
- Helen Dendy Bosanquet
- Ester Boserup
- Emilia Jessie Boucherett
- Marian E.A. Bowley
- Mary Jean Bowman
- Dorothy Stahl Brady
- Sophonisba Breckinridge
- Elizabeth Read Brown
- Martha Stephanie Browne
- Eveline Mabel Richardson Burns
- Elizabeth Beardsley Butler
- Helen Stuart Campbell
- Agatha Louisa Chapman
- Margaret Cole
- Clara Elizabeth Collet
- Katharine Coman
- Costanza Costantino
- Caroline Wells Healey Dall
- Julie-Victoire Daubié
- Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids
- Katherine Bement Davis
- Marie Dessauer
- Elisabeth Caroline van Dorp
- Eleanor Lansing Dulles
- Raya Dunayevskaya
- Minnie Throop England
- Millicent Garrett Fawcett
- Ann Fetter Friedlaender
- Rose Director Friedman
- Elizabeth Waterman Gilboy
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Fanny Ginor
- Kirsten Gloerfelt-Tarp
- Selma Evelyn Fine Goldsmith
- Dorothy C. Goodwin
- Margaret Gordon
- Marina Goudi
- Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson
- Lucy Barbara (Bradby) Hammond
- Amy Hewes
- Ursula Hicks
- Elizabeth Ellis Hoyt
- B.L. Hutchins
- Mary Quayle Innis
- Alice Hanson Jones
- Florence Kelley
- Susan Myra Kingsbury
- Karin Kock
- Anna Koutsoyiannis
- Hazel Kyrk
- KÃ_the Leichter
- Charlotte Leubuscher
- Helene Lieser
- Gertrud von Lovasy
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Jane Haldimand Marcet
- Mary Paley Marshall
- Harriet Martineau
- Jean Trepp McKelvey
- Theresa Schmid McMahon
- Mary Meynieu
- Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill
- Ilse Schüller Mintz
- Natalie Moszkowska
- Selma J. Mushkin
- Margaret Good Myers
- Maria Negreponti-Delivani
- Mabel Newcomer
- Jessica Blanche Peixotto
- Virginia Penny
- Edith Tilton Penrose
- The Philip Family
- Vera Cao Pinna
- Michèle A. Pujol
- Eleanor Rathbone
- Margaret Gilpin Reid
- Joan Robinson
- Clémence-Auguste Royer
- Lise Salvas-Bronsard
- Koko (Takako) Sanpei
- Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter
- Anna Jacobson Schwartz
- Nancy L. Schwartz
- Hannah Robie Sewall
- Kate Sheppard
- Irene M. Spry
- Maria Szecsi
- Setsu Tanino
- Maria da Conceição Tavares
- Marguerite Thibert
- Mabel Frances Timlin
- Cläre Tisch
- Flora Tristan
- Mary Abby Van Kleeck
- Priscilla Wakefield
- Phyllis Ann Wallace
- Barbara Ward
- Caroline Farrar Ware
- Beatrice Potter Webb
- Helen Laura Sumner Woodbury
- Maxine Bernard Yaple Sweezy Woolston
- Barbara Wootton
- Frieda Wunderlich
- Kikue Yamakawa
- Anna Pritchett Youngman
- Irini (Rena) Zafiriou
Katherine Bement Davis
Claire Holton Hammond
Reference Entry
- Published in print:
- 26 Oct 2000
- Category:
- Reference Entry
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- (7 total)
Extract
Bibliography Selected writings by Caroline A.F. Rhys Davids 131 (1893) ‘Fashion’, Economic Journal, 3 (September), 458–74. (1901), ‘Economic conditions in ancient India’, Economic Journal, 11 (September), 305–20. (1922), ‘Economic conditions according to early Buddhist literature’, Cambridge History of India, vol. 1, pp. 198–219. Other sources and references Fullbrook, Edward (1998), ‘Caroline Foley and the theory of intersubjective demand’, Journal of Economic Issues, 32(3), 709–31. Jayawardena, Kumari (1995), The White Woman’s Other Burden: Western Women and South Asia During British Colonial Rule, London and New York: Routledge. Palgrave, R.H. Inglis (ed.) (1894–99), Dictionary of Political Economy, London: Macmillan. Katherine Bement Davis (1860–1935) In 1900 Katherine Bement Davis became the first woman to earn her Ph.D. in economics at the University of Chicago. By 1922 she was acclaimed by the National League of Women Voters as one of the 12 greatest living American women. Her journey from Chicago to national prominence is one of commitment to science and to the idea that the best way to approach society’s problems is via social and economic research into their underlying causes. Davis was born in 1860 in Buffalo, New York, the daughter of Oscar and Francis Bement Davis. She graduated from Rochester Free Academy in 1879 and taught at Dunkirk High School to pay her way through Vassar where she studied science and mathematics. She graduated with honours in 1892. After graduation Davis spent a year studying food chemistry at Barnard and Columbia Colleges. In 1893 she...
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- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Edith Abbott
- Ruth Alice Allen
- Shirley Ann Montag Almon
- Elizabeth Faulkner Baker
- Emily Greene Balch
- Käthe Bauer-Mengelberg
- Hilde Behrend
- Cora Berliner
- Krishna Bharadwaj
- Huguette Biaujeaud
- Clementina Black
- Rosalind (Hyman) Blauer
- Barbara Bodichon
- Olga Nikolajevna Bondareva
- Helen Dendy Bosanquet
- Ester Boserup
- Emilia Jessie Boucherett
- Marian E.A. Bowley
- Mary Jean Bowman
- Dorothy Stahl Brady
- Sophonisba Breckinridge
- Elizabeth Read Brown
- Martha Stephanie Browne
- Eveline Mabel Richardson Burns
- Elizabeth Beardsley Butler
- Helen Stuart Campbell
- Agatha Louisa Chapman
- Margaret Cole
- Clara Elizabeth Collet
- Katharine Coman
- Costanza Costantino
- Caroline Wells Healey Dall
- Julie-Victoire Daubié
- Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids
- Katherine Bement Davis
- Marie Dessauer
- Elisabeth Caroline van Dorp
- Eleanor Lansing Dulles
- Raya Dunayevskaya
- Minnie Throop England
- Millicent Garrett Fawcett
- Ann Fetter Friedlaender
- Rose Director Friedman
- Elizabeth Waterman Gilboy
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Fanny Ginor
- Kirsten Gloerfelt-Tarp
- Selma Evelyn Fine Goldsmith
- Dorothy C. Goodwin
- Margaret Gordon
- Marina Goudi
- Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson
- Lucy Barbara (Bradby) Hammond
- Amy Hewes
- Ursula Hicks
- Elizabeth Ellis Hoyt
- B.L. Hutchins
- Mary Quayle Innis
- Alice Hanson Jones
- Florence Kelley
- Susan Myra Kingsbury
- Karin Kock
- Anna Koutsoyiannis
- Hazel Kyrk
- KÃ_the Leichter
- Charlotte Leubuscher
- Helene Lieser
- Gertrud von Lovasy
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Jane Haldimand Marcet
- Mary Paley Marshall
- Harriet Martineau
- Jean Trepp McKelvey
- Theresa Schmid McMahon
- Mary Meynieu
- Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill
- Ilse Schüller Mintz
- Natalie Moszkowska
- Selma J. Mushkin
- Margaret Good Myers
- Maria Negreponti-Delivani
- Mabel Newcomer
- Jessica Blanche Peixotto
- Virginia Penny
- Edith Tilton Penrose
- The Philip Family
- Vera Cao Pinna
- Michèle A. Pujol
- Eleanor Rathbone
- Margaret Gilpin Reid
- Joan Robinson
- Clémence-Auguste Royer
- Lise Salvas-Bronsard
- Koko (Takako) Sanpei
- Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter
- Anna Jacobson Schwartz
- Nancy L. Schwartz
- Hannah Robie Sewall
- Kate Sheppard
- Irene M. Spry
- Maria Szecsi
- Setsu Tanino
- Maria da Conceição Tavares
- Marguerite Thibert
- Mabel Frances Timlin
- Cläre Tisch
- Flora Tristan
- Mary Abby Van Kleeck
- Priscilla Wakefield
- Phyllis Ann Wallace
- Barbara Ward
- Caroline Farrar Ware
- Beatrice Potter Webb
- Helen Laura Sumner Woodbury
- Maxine Bernard Yaple Sweezy Woolston
- Barbara Wootton
- Frieda Wunderlich
- Kikue Yamakawa
- Anna Pritchett Youngman
- Irini (Rena) Zafiriou