Edith Penrose: A Feminist Economist?
重新解读彭罗斯的《企业成长理论》，发现其中对男性中心偏见的挑战，展示其替代性人性观和对笛卡尔二元论的排斥，以及运用隐喻和故事进行理论创新的方法，可作为女性主义经济学的范例。
We re-read a foundational work, The Theory of the Growth of the Firm by Edith Penrose, not to identify the androcentric bias but instead to recover a challenge to such bias. Our purpose is to show in Penrose an alternative view of human "nature" and revulsion from "Cartesian" dualisms. At the same time, Penrose had a deep interest in the real world and used metaphor and story alongside empirical observation in the pursuit of theoretical advance. The Theory of the Growth of the Firm provides an approach to industrial organization that is not only consistent with feminist economics but can be read as a methodological and expositional examplar.