My research with @rgbetancourt.bsky.social & Marianne Johnson on economics & birth control. Main point: Despite ambivalent history, economists can usefully study links between birth control, poverty alleviation, intersectional justice, gender equity & well-being. www.latrobe.edu.au/news/announc...

Want to know what my book is about? Thanks to Virginie Gouverneur for mapping it out so clearly and generously! Economics and the Family: A Social and Political History by Miriam Bankovsky read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article...

A nice little interview about my book... press.princeton.edu/ideas/annie-...

Thanks to Shoshana Grossbard for a generous and critical review of my book (Economics and the Family: A Social and Political History, Cambridge UP). Thanks, too, to @mdtremblay.bsky.social as book review editor for sourcing this review. I appreciate the effort, time, and care you both put into this.

A review of Miriam Bankovsky's book (Economics and the family: a social and political history), by Shoshana Grossbard www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Reviews of exciting books on Adam Smith by Vivenza, Léon Walras by @kayokomisaki.bsky.social, Econ of the family by @miriambankovsky.bsky.social and field experiments by @ustagan10.bsky.social @judithfavereau.bsky.social are included in the new issue of EJHET www.tandfonline.com/toc/rejh20/3...

👉🏻 Today 👀@miriambankovsky.bsky.social is presenting some work of her new book on the role and place of families in economic thinking and social policies at the Cercle d’épistémologie at the MSH in Paris. @rehpere.bsky.social Registrations to join are still open! rehpere.org/2025/11/25/c...

Supporting Dr Jo Faulkner: I am shocked to learn those identified for forced redundancy at Macquarie University (including Jo) appear to have been targeted due to involvement in and activities to support the National Tertiary Education Union. Jo is a kind person& an excellent researcher and teacher.

HES highlight last wk: African American economists/issues panel with Prof Guy Numa. Thanks to Numa & Darity Jr for including paper I wrote with Rebeca Gomez Betancourt/Marianne Johnson and for helping us w clues to more African American econs. Numa's work on W.E. Du Bois is worth read in JEL.

Roundtable at @iaffofficial.bsky.social on my new book: Economics and the Family: A Social and Political History (Cambridge University Press). Thank you for the discussion @rgbetancourt.bsky.social @yanarodgers.bsky.social Nancy Folbre and Mariel Gruppi

Plenary experts @IAFFE summarising impact of US executive direction on dismantling of laws/infrastructure re. higher ed accreditation, migration, trans & civil rights, USAID research, reproduction, disaster warning, DHS data etc. Opportunities for country-led data collection, local solidarity econ.

Very happy to be here for the first plenary of the International Association for Feminist Economics conference in Amherst, Massachussetts @iaffe.bsky.social

Working in the archives over the last week at the Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri. Will be here across the next week, too. Thanks to the library for a research grant that helped make it happen!

🎉 I’m incredibly excited that, after so much time, my book Conversations on Rational Choice will be published by CUP. It features 23 interviews with leading rational choice scholars and their critics, each accompanied by in-depth introductions to their work: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Interesting.

Are you looking for an introduction to the history of economics? I recommend Roger Backhouse's The Ordinary Business of Life (titled The Penguin History of Economics in the UK), second edition (2023). Read my review of the book, forthcoming in JHET www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Coming soon: one of the best books I've read this year, and probably the clearest and deepest answer to the question "what's an economic model" By the great Verena Halsmayer #econsky cambridge.org/core/books/m...

🚨 New Video Podcast! 🎙️✨ The Institute for Queer Economics launches its first episode! 🏳️‍🌈 Dennis Venter & Prof. Miriam Bankovsky explore: 🔹 Family economics through time 🔹 #FeministEconomics & new ideas 🔹 #QueerEconomics & its challenges 🌈 ] 📺 Watch now: youtu.be/4p34TWFvZgw

My conversation with Dennis Venter from @queerecon.bsky.social and Rethinking Economics, on how Queer Economics emerged historically, as part of a longer history of family economics. youtu.be/4p34TWFvZgw?...

My book will be out in May! Economics and the Family: A Social and Political History, with Cambridge University Press's book series "Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics". See here for more details: www.cambridge.org/au/universit...