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Imperfections of the Subject and Object of Neoclassical Economics and Their Implications——from the Perspective of Feminist Economics

Ma Xiuli

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As a new school of economics in the 1990s,the feminist economics develop into a subdiscipline under the influence of the second wave of feminist movement.From the very beginning,the feminist economics questions neoclassical economics with the method of social gender analysis.The feminist economics points out the imperfections of the subject and object of neoclassical economics,that is,the research subject of neoclassical does not take women into consideration and its research object does not take woman's activities into consideration.The imperfections of the subject and object of neoclassical economics have important implications for properly understand the lopsided content,androcentric ontology and epistemology,and research paradigm of neoclassical economics.

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As a new school of economics in the 1990s,the feminist economics develop into a subdiscipline under the influence of the second wave of feminist movement.From the very beginning,the feminist economics questions neoclassical economics with the method of social gender analysis.The feminist economics points out the imperfections of the subject and object of neoclassical economics,that is,the research subject of neoclassical does not take women into consideration and its research object does not take woman's activities into consideration.The imperfections of the subject and object of neoclassical economics have important implications for properly understand the lopsided content,androcentric ontology and epistemology,and research paradigm of neoclassical economics.

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As a new school of economics in the 1990s,the feminist economics develop into a subdiscipline under the influence of the second wave of feminist movement.From the very beginning,the feminist economics questions neoclassical economics with the method of social gender analysis.The feminist economics points out the imperfections of the subject and object of neoclassical economics,that is,the research subject of neoclassical does not take women into consideration and its research object does not take woman's activities into consideration.The imperfections of the subject and object of neoclassical economics have important implications for properly understand the lopsided content,androcentric ontology and epistemology,and research paradigm of neoclassical economics.

Key concepts: Subject (documents), Heterodox economics, Applied economics, Object (grammar), Human development theory, Schools of economic thought, Perspective (graphical), Mainstream economics

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