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Liberty Matters: A Forum for the Discussion of Ideas About Liberty Why Do We Need Feminist Economics? (March 2023)

What is feminist economics? Is it a complement or subsitute for standard economic analysis? Regardless, why do we need it today? These are the questions that animate this Liberty Matters symposium. Led by Professor Ginadomenica Becchio, four scholars will each take their turn at providing answers to these questions. Becchio reminds us in her opening essay, "Any social phenomenon has many p...

Explore the OLL Collection: Quotations About Liberty and Power Catharine Macaulay supported the French Revolution because there were sound “public choice” reasons for not vesting supreme power in the hands of one’s social or economic “betters” (1790)

Catharine Macaulay, the English republican historian, was one of the first to criticize Burke’s opposition to the French Revolution. She argued that there were sound “public choice” reasons for not vesting supreme power in the hands of one’s social or economic “betters”:

Explore the OLL Collection: Images of Liberty and Power Images of the British Abolitionist Movement

Images used by the British Abolitionist Movement in the 1780s "Am I not a Man and a Brot...