At the upcoming meeting we are honoured to have Dr. Brenda Spotton, a professor of economics at York University, come speak to the club. We hope you can join us on what promises to be a fascinating discussion.
Here's a brief description from Dr. Spotton of what she'll be covering:
"The virtual absence of differentiated social location in social theorizing has critical implications for public policy. A grounding in models that assume individuals are simply “rational” beings, regardless of gender, race, and other markers of a social self, privileges naturalist assumptions and claims. For example, attempts by feminist economists to shine a light on non-marketed activities traditionally performed by women do so by suggesting we monetize the values of such contributions as caregiving. In this talk, we explore the implications of an interpretivist view of our material well-being that permits the construction of social reality as a challenge to the dominant view wherein theorizing and policy-making simply reflect on, and act within, an objective external reality."
Bio
Brenda Spotton Visano is Distinguished University Professor in Economics and Public Policy at York University. Her widely published interdisciplinary scholarship advances a heterodox perspective on
macroeconomics and microfinance. Her passion for promoting access and diversity in theories, practices, and professional conduct in economics and finance lies at the core of her scholarly and
professional engagements. Some of the questions that motivate this talk were originally explored in her scholarly publication “Gendering Post-Keynesian Monetary Macroeconomics with Situated Knowledge”
(2017).
