Women's Agency In Classical Economic Thought: Adam Smith, Harriet Taylor Mill, And J. S. Mill
考察了亚当·斯密和密尔夫妇对女性经济决策能力的看法，发现斯密不信任女性判断力，而密尔夫妇则信任女性，并建议当代经济学家效仿密尔。
In this paper, the issue of women's agency (defined as the capacity of a female economic agent for rational decision-making) is examined in classical economic thought, with Adam Smith and the Mills taken as case studies. It is concluded that Smith had relatively little confidence in women's independent judgment and hence in their capacity for reasoned decisions on economic matters. By contrast, the Mills, almost alone among classical economists, did trust women to make decisions in their long-run interest. With the arrival of academic feminism in economics, the time is ripe for a reappraisal of such implicit assumptions, and it is concluded that current-day economists would do better to follow the Mills, rather than Adam Smith, on this matter.