Ida Greaves - A Pioneer Development Economist

Ida Greaves, who was born in Barbados in 1907, is one of the "missing female voices" of early development economics. This biography, the first for Ida Greaves, attempts to construct her career and era before the past wholly disappears.

List of contents

1. Early Education 2. The Lasting Legacy of McGill 3. Harvard, Bryn Mawr and the London School of Economics 4. Modern Production Among Backward Peoples (1935) 5: American Interlude 6. The Colonial Office and LSE 7. Colonial Monetary Conditions 8. Towards a Conclusion. Postscript: Ida Greaves: A Pioneer Development Economist? Appendix: The Currency Board Mechanism and the Sterling Area

About the author

Barbara Ingham is an economist who has written extensively on development issues. Her research features the institutions in which development policy emerged from the 1930s onwards. She has co-authored the biography of a Caribbean economist Arthur Lewis and papers on Arthur Lewis and the Windrush Generation.

Summary

Ida Greaves, who was born in Barbados in 1907, is one of the "missing female voices" of early development economics. This biography, the first for Ida Greaves, attempts to construct her career and era before the past wholly disappears.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Ingham, Ingham Barbara
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.10.2023
• EAN: 9781032494395
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3249439-5
• No. of pages: 140
• Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Modern / General, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, Colonialism & imperialism, Economic history, Historiography, Regional Studies, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism, Regional / International studies, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, History and Archaeology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards