I sometimes refer to economics as a woman. To me the subject was always a she. People would ask me why. Easy. She's obvi — Frances Weetman, Whose Model is It Anyway?: Why Economists Need to Face Up to Reality
I sometimes refer to economics as a woman. To me the subject was always a she. People would ask me why. Easy. She's obvi — Frances Weetman, Whose Model is It Anyway?: Why Economists Need to Face Up to Reality
I sometimes refer to economics as a woman. To me the subject was always a she. People would ask me why. Easy. She's obvi — Frances Weetman, Whose Model is It Anyway?: Why Economists Need to Face Up to Reality
I sometimes refer to economics as a woman. To me the subject was always a she. People would ask me why. Easy. She's obvi — Frances Weetman, Whose Model is It Anyway?: Why Economists Need to Face Up to Reality
I sometimes refer to economics as a woman. To me the subject was always a she. People would ask me why. Easy. She's obvi — Frances Weetman, Whose Model is It Anyway?: Why Economists Need to Face Up to Reality
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I sometimes refer to economics as a woman. To me the subject was always a she. People would ask me why. Easy. She's obviously a woman: all the men are trying to do her, and mostly they're failing.

— Frances Weetman, Whose Model is It Anyway?: Why Economists Need to Face Up to Reality
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