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Tyler Cowen addresses feminist economics.

What he dislikes: feminist economists' "lack of a hardheaded willingness to recognize politically incorrect truths about gender[.]"

Of course, Cowen doesn't say exactly which truths feminist economists fail to accept, or why those truths are economically relevant. I searched Cowen's CV and found a single paper that makes reference to women, entitled "Why women succeed, and fail, in the arts." Perhaps women's unique artistic talents represent the hard truths that feminist economists fail to acknowledge. Other than that, however, Cowen hasn't spent a lot of time studying gender differences in economics. Picking up an academic paper, reading it, and then asserting that economists who disagree with the paper's conclusions are ignoring "truths" is, in official economic terms, pretty weak sauce.


What he likes: feminist economists' alternative to "the 'male way of doing economics' -- abstract, analytically cutting, and debate-intense."

What, then, is the "female way of doing economics"? Consensus-based, analytically weak, and loaded down with concrete examples? Sounds a lot like a stereotype of a Japanese university...


Also, in the course of his post, Cowen refers to mainstream economics as "the Chicago-based way of thinking." That, of course, is silly. As a guy who never worked or studied at Chicago, I wonder why Cowen would give the school such undeserved accolades. Maybe it has something to do with the "male way of doing economics"...