Document Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
10-2019
Abstract
Care is central to the human experience and part of the social provisioning process. Adam Smith recognized this, associating care with sympathy. Later contributions in the political economy tradition also provide scope for an analysis of care, but none as developed as Smith’s. With the emergence of the current mainstream, care is marginalized. Kenneth Boulding’s analysis provides an opportunity to interrogate care in the economy, but he fails to explicitly acknowledge care. It is left to feminist economics to highlight the centrality of care. An implication is that it challenges the conventional rubric of economic organization predicated on self-interest.
Recommended Citation
Davis, John B. and McMaster, Robert, "(WP 2019-02) A Road Not Taken? A Brief History of Care in Economic Thought" (2019). Economics Working Papers. 67.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/econ_workingpapers/67