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Queering Economics
Reimagining the Dismal Science
How queering economics will better serve society.
The field of economics is tremendously influential, and it is also one of the least diverse and most exclusionary social science disciplines. Economists Michael Martell and Leanne Roncolato reveal how economics has created a dangerous hierarchy that deters dissent and marginalizes underrepresented voices, and provide an argument for how diversification can benefit the field. By highlighting the voices of LGBTQ+ economists, who offer first-person accounts of how the field continues to disadvantage and exclude, and equipped with qualitative and quantitative data, the authors follow their call to action with a step-by-step plan for queering economics.
Drawing on critical race, feminist, and queer perspectives and movements, Queering Economics shows how making economics inclusive benefits all of us. Not only will the field benefit from attracting the best and most diverse talent; it will also allow the discipline to better represent the various ways we experience the economy while promoting prosperity and inclusion for all, especially the most vulnerable.
The field of economics is tremendously influential, and it is also one of the least diverse and most exclusionary social science disciplines. Economists Michael Martell and Leanne Roncolato reveal how economics has created a dangerous hierarchy that deters dissent and marginalizes underrepresented voices, and provide an argument for how diversification can benefit the field. By highlighting the voices of LGBTQ+ economists, who offer first-person accounts of how the field continues to disadvantage and exclude, and equipped with qualitative and quantitative data, the authors follow their call to action with a step-by-step plan for queering economics.
Drawing on critical race, feminist, and queer perspectives and movements, Queering Economics shows how making economics inclusive benefits all of us. Not only will the field benefit from attracting the best and most diverse talent; it will also allow the discipline to better represent the various ways we experience the economy while promoting prosperity and inclusion for all, especially the most vulnerable.
Michael E. Martell is Associate Professor of Economics at Bard College.
Leanne Roncolato is Associate Professor of Economics at Franklin and Marshall College.
Leanne Roncolato is Associate Professor of Economics at Franklin and Marshall College.
"This unique work gives voice to queer economists and provides a way forward for understanding and advocating for the roles of queer economists, and research on queer people, in the field at large."—Martha Olney, Teaching Professor Emerita of Economics, University of California, Berkeley“An urgent call to action. Michael Martell and Leanne Roncolato’s groundbreaking book is required reading for queer economists and queer economics students at every level. Anyone interested in understanding how the dismal science made meaningful progress on queer inclusion—and how much further we have to go—should read this book.”—Christopher S. Carpenter, University Distinguished Professor of Economics, Vanderbilt University"Every economist—and everyone who cares about economics—should read this remarkable and accessible book. Martell and Roncolato persuasively show that economics would be a better social science and our economy would be more inclusive if we had more queer economists."—M. V. Lee Badgett, Chief Economist, Koppa – The LGBTI+ Economic Power Lab