Swimming against the tide: Anne Mayhew and Edythe Miller

Dell P. Champlin and Janet T. Knoedler

Chapter 16 in The Elgar Companion to Women and Heterodox Economics, 2025, pp 250-263 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: We examine major addresses by two influential women institutional economists, Anne Mayhew and Edythe Miller, focusing on their critique of many key premises of mainstream economics, including economic man, equilibrium analysis, and the presumed benefits of competitive markets. Mayhew and Miller offer an alternative approach to economic analysis that focuses on economic and social institutions; brings culture and history into that analysis; examines the waste inherent in modern industrial economies; and posits instead a role for pragmatic government policies that focus on the greater social good, an economics for the public purpose. We also briefly review the use of some of these ideas in emerging fields within the discipline of economics and reflect on the wider relevance for our current economic problems.

Keywords: Culture; Economic Man; Gender And Economics; Institutional Economics; Pragmatism; Public Purpose (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035329304
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