Contributions to female economic thought have come from prolific scholars, leading social reformers, economic journalists and government officials along with many women who contributed only one or two works to the field. It is perhaps for this reason that a comprehensive bibliographic collection has failed to appear, until now. This book presents the most comprehensive collection to date of references to writing by women on economics from the 1770s to 1940. It includes thousands of contributions to economic literature from more than 1,700 women; most were British or American, but many other...

Contributions to female economic thought have come from prolific scholars, leading social reformers, economic journalists and government officials along with many other women who contributed only one or two works to the field. This book brings together the most comprehensive collection to date of references to women's economic writing from the 1770s to 1940. It includes thousands of contributions from more than 1700 women from the UK, the US and many other countries.