Danielle Dreilinger's "The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live" is a fascinating history of the field and of the ...

The study of the History of Economic Thought traces the evolution of economic ideas across centuries, from classical analyses of market dynamics and moral philosophy to contemporary methodological ...

Paul Mattick, Jr. reviews The Origin of Economic Ideas by Guy Routh for Root & Branch issue #6 published in 1978. Root & Branch was a libertarian socialist journal in the U.S. In writing this book Guy ...

The publisher describes the book as a “surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics [that] traces the field’s history from Black colleges to ...

Those readers whose memories of home economics class are dominated by muffin tins and sewing machines might be surprised to learn about Caroline Hunt, an early innovator in the field. Hunt had no ...

What do you picture when you hear the phrase “home economics?” Do you think of a high school classroom full of sewing machines, pots and pans, mops and brooms — in other words, a vestige of our sexist ...