‘Whoever says Industrial Revolution says cotton.’ Those were the words of the historian Eric Hobsbawm. The cotton industry was at the heart of Britain’s industrial transformation, leading the way in ...

This provocative book mounts a feminist critique of much modern economic theory and policy, which the author claims has a strong and continuing male bias. Bateman seeks to widen the discipline’s focus ...

V ictoria Bateman, an economic historian at the University of Cambridge, has an engaging sing-song canter to her conversation, her dark hair in an arched braid across her head like a Jane Austen ...