A Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists
介绍了一本女性经济学家传记辞典，该书梳理了女性在经济学教学、写作和研究中的角色，反映了该研究领域的发展，并讨论了编纂过程中遇到的挑战，如经济学定义的界定和联系网络的局限。
A Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists is a welcome addition to the literature on women in economics. The introduction is both interesting and useful, though disappointingly short. It traces the growth of understanding of the role of women in economics teaching, writing, and research, broadly defined. In this sense it is a summary of a developing research field, a project itself furthered by the act of compiling a biographical dictionary. The editors discovered that `looking for women economists is like pulling on a loose thread. Every woman we discovered led us to two or three more whose works they cited…' (Dimand, Dimand, and Forget, page xvi). In this respect their experience was similar to that of others who had attempted to restore women to the history of any subject. The editors are frank about the problems of dealing with an expanding research agenda, and enthusiastic contributors. Entry was determined by the expanding knowledge base on women economists, the strength of contacts both within and without the Anglo‐Saxon world, and by the definition of economics (a significant problem, especially before the professionalisation of the discipline). The editorial decision was to go for `individuals intentionally working in what would, at the time they wrote, have been considered economics' (Dimand, Dimand, and Forget, xvii). For example whilst Marcet and Martineau are in, Maria Edgeworth is not. This is, presumably, because she only dealt with economic themes indirectly through her children's stories and in her comic novel, Castle Rackrent (1800). Gertrude Williams (1897–1983), sometime professor of social economics in the University of London is not included. This omission could be due to lack of knowledge or suitable contacts, for the New Dictionary of National Biography is also finding it difficult to find someone to write on Williams.