[PEN-L:1552] Re: Rich and Poor

[Bill Rosenberg <w.rosenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ken Hanly <khanly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Seems to me Jane Kelsey complained loudly about this manner of
> accounting since it ignores the value of projects that might not
> lead to GNP increases but might be very valuable in terms of
> people's lives i.e. digging a well closer to a village so that
> people-usually women--do not spend half the day hauling water.

You probably mean another New Zealand woman academic, Marilyn
Waring, rather than Jane Kelsey. She wrote "Counting for nothing :
what men value & what women are worth" (Wellington, N.Z. : Allen &
Unwin, 1988) which was published outside New Zealand as "If women
counted : a new feminist economics Marilyn Waring ; introduction by
Gloria Steinem" (London : MacMillan, 1989).

Bill Rosenberg