Colin Danby
Biographic Data
| ID | 1600701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colin Danby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colin |
| FAMILY NAME | Danby |
| SIGNATURE | DANBY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington Bothell |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-5430-3629 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Race in Marshall’s Economics
Alfred Marshall used an evolutionary theory of race to ground individual psychology and explain economic behavior. The psychological theory, drawn from Herbert Spencer, explained British and US industrial leadership by the innate excellences of Anglo-Saxon workers and entrepreneurs, without invoking colonialism or other uses of state power. It also asserted the internal solidarity of Anglo-Saxons. Because they were inclined to help each other, ar…
Meade, Phillips, and the Two-Country Model
James Meade played an important role in the 1951 development of the "Mark II" Newlyn-Phillips machine, including making it fit for connection to a mirror-image machine so that policy interactions between two countries could be demonstrated. In 1952 Phillips built, for Meade, a "foreign exchange market" to link two machines. This article reconstructs the linking device from archival evidence, and places the resulting two- country model in the cont…
Postwar Norm
Economic and population data standardized after World War II embedded the modernist ideology that society unites the opposed spheres of a competitive and calculating economy and loving, self-sacrificing households. The fundamental concept is complementarity, the union-in-difference of two opposed principles. This difference is commonly troped through gender (men compete and women care), generating an obvious heteronormativity, but the heteronorm …
Political economy and the closet
Returning to a question raised by M. V. Lee Badgett in the first issue of Feminist Economics, this paper traces the persistence of heteronormativity in feminist economics to assumptions that kinship is organized around conjugal bonds. These assumptions let “the family” stand automatically for a husband, wife, and their children. “Heteronormativity” is not a synonym for heterosexual privilege, but rather names tacit conceptions about what is socia…
A through-time framework for producer households
Taking as its central case urban producer households of a kind widely found in the third world, this paper shows that the through-time analyses of material activities developed by Marxist and Post Keynesian theorists are as applicable to ‘reproductive’ household activities as they are to market-directed production. Drawing on and extending work by Marxist feminist theorists, it develops an internal critique of the productive–reproductive divide b…
The curse of the modern
The anthropological literature on the gift has split the social and material world into a premodern realm of thick sociality where gifting is located, and a modern realm of thin sociality in which exchange occurs. It concedes the modern realm to neoclassical economists. This paper challenges both the premodern/modern split and the adequacy of neoclassical theory as a description of material life anywhere, drawing on Post Keynesian critiques of th…
Lupita's Dress
Carol Gilligan's temporally embedded caring subjects reason in terms of relationships with and forward-looking responsibilities to others, and consider how their decisions will shape future ties. Subsequent work in philosophy and economics has had difficulty developing these aspects because of an underlying social ontology that excludes them. This paper draws on a heterodox tradition, post-Keynesianism, to develop an alternative social ontology a…
Toward a Gendered Post Keynesianism
The heterodox “Post Keynesian” school, which emphasizes fundamental uncertainty and the time structure of economic activity, overlaps feminist economics in its treatment of subjectivity and its understanding of the relation between micro and macro phenomena. Why, then, is the intersection of the two fields in the published literature so small? This paper argues that Post Keynesians have adopted a number of additional institutional assumptions tha…
Lupita's Dress
Carol Gilligan's temporally embedded caring subjects reason in terms of relationships with and forward-looking responsibilities to others, and consider how their decisions will shape future ties. Subsequent work in philosophy and economics has had difficulty developing these aspects because of an underlying social ontology that excludes them. This paper draws on a heterodox tradition, post-Keynesianism, to develop an alternative social ontology a…
Challenges and opportunities in El Salvador's financial sector
Political economy and the closet
Returning to a question raised by M. V. Lee Badgett in the first issue of Feminist Economics, this paper traces the persistence of heteronormativity in feminist economics to assumptions that kinship is organized around conjugal bonds. These assumptions let “the family” stand automatically for a husband, wife, and their children. “Heteronormativity” is not a synonym for heterosexual privilege, but rather names tacit conceptions about what is socia…
Challenges and opportunities in El Salvador's financial sector
A through-time framework for producer households
Taking as its central case urban producer households of a kind widely found in the third world, this paper shows that the through-time analyses of material activities developed by Marxist and Post Keynesian theorists are as applicable to ‘reproductive’ household activities as they are to market-directed production. Drawing on and extending work by Marxist feminist theorists, it develops an internal critique of the productive–reproductive divide b…
Postwar Norm
Economic and population data standardized after World War II embedded the modernist ideology that society unites the opposed spheres of a competitive and calculating economy and loving, self-sacrificing households. The fundamental concept is complementarity, the union-in-difference of two opposed principles. This difference is commonly troped through gender (men compete and women care), generating an obvious heteronormativity, but the heteronorm …
Toward a Gendered Post Keynesianism
The heterodox “Post Keynesian” school, which emphasizes fundamental uncertainty and the time structure of economic activity, overlaps feminist economics in its treatment of subjectivity and its understanding of the relation between micro and macro phenomena. Why, then, is the intersection of the two fields in the published literature so small? This paper argues that Post Keynesians have adopted a number of additional institutional assumptions tha…
Challenges and opportunities in El Salvador's financial sector
The curse of the modern
The anthropological literature on the gift has split the social and material world into a premodern realm of thick sociality where gifting is located, and a modern realm of thin sociality in which exchange occurs. It concedes the modern realm to neoclassical economists. This paper challenges both the premodern/modern split and the adequacy of neoclassical theory as a description of material life anywhere, drawing on Post Keynesian critiques of th…
Lupita's Dress
Carol Gilligan's temporally embedded caring subjects reason in terms of relationships with and forward-looking responsibilities to others, and consider how their decisions will shape future ties. Subsequent work in philosophy and economics has had difficulty developing these aspects because of an underlying social ontology that excludes them. This paper draws on a heterodox tradition, post-Keynesianism, to develop an alternative social ontology a…
Toward a Gendered Post Keynesianism
The heterodox “Post Keynesian” school, which emphasizes fundamental uncertainty and the time structure of economic activity, overlaps feminist economics in its treatment of subjectivity and its understanding of the relation between micro and macro phenomena. Why, then, is the intersection of the two fields in the published literature so small? This paper argues that Post Keynesians have adopted a number of additional institutional assumptions tha…
Lupita's Dress
Carol Gilligan's temporally embedded caring subjects reason in terms of relationships with and forward-looking responsibilities to others, and consider how their decisions will shape future ties. Subsequent work in philosophy and economics has had difficulty developing these aspects because of an underlying social ontology that excludes them. This paper draws on a heterodox tradition, post-Keynesianism, to develop an alternative social ontology a…
A through-time framework for producer households
Taking as its central case urban producer households of a kind widely found in the third world, this paper shows that the through-time analyses of material activities developed by Marxist and Post Keynesian theorists are as applicable to ‘reproductive’ household activities as they are to market-directed production. Drawing on and extending work by Marxist feminist theorists, it develops an internal critique of the productive–reproductive divide b…
Political economy and the closet
Returning to a question raised by M. V. Lee Badgett in the first issue of Feminist Economics, this paper traces the persistence of heteronormativity in feminist economics to assumptions that kinship is organized around conjugal bonds. These assumptions let “the family” stand automatically for a husband, wife, and their children. “Heteronormativity” is not a synonym for heterosexual privilege, but rather names tacit conceptions about what is socia…
Postwar Norm
Economic and population data standardized after World War II embedded the modernist ideology that society unites the opposed spheres of a competitive and calculating economy and loving, self-sacrificing households. The fundamental concept is complementarity, the union-in-difference of two opposed principles. This difference is commonly troped through gender (men compete and women care), generating an obvious heteronormativity, but the heteronorm …
Meade, Phillips, and the Two-Country Model
James Meade played an important role in the 1951 development of the "Mark II" Newlyn-Phillips machine, including making it fit for connection to a mirror-image machine so that policy interactions between two countries could be demonstrated. In 1952 Phillips built, for Meade, a "foreign exchange market" to link two machines. This article reconstructs the linking device from archival evidence, and places the resulting two- country model in the cont…
Race in Marshall’s Economics
Alfred Marshall used an evolutionary theory of race to ground individual psychology and explain economic behavior. The psychological theory, drawn from Herbert Spencer, explained British and US industrial leadership by the innate excellences of Anglo-Saxon workers and entrepreneurs, without invoking colonialism or other uses of state power. It also asserted the internal solidarity of Anglo-Saxons. Because they were inclined to help each other, ar…
Economics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economic Theory and Institutions (6 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Positive economics (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)