Counting on Marilyn Waring Quotes

“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are wrong and when they are right are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”
― Margunn Bjornhold, Counting on Marilyn Waring: New Advances in Feminist Economics

“To understand the crisis we need to get beyond the blame game. For at the root of the crisis was not a failure of characters or competence, but a failure of ideas. . . the present crisis is to a large extent the fruit of the intellectual failure of the economics profession. (28)”
― Margunn Bjornhold, Counting on Marilyn Waring: New Advances in Feminist Economics

“The future of economics is feminist.”
― Margunn Bjornhold, Counting on Marilyn Waring: New Advances in Feminist Economics