One of the biggest flaws in contemporary economics? Its inability to properly account for and value women, says Jayati Ghosh

This is a sharp info-animation of a short speech by Jayati Ghosh, a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Its theme, according to the Institute for New Economic Thinking, is: “Economics has many flaws, yet few are as broadly oppressive as its illusions about gender.”

Ghosh has also just started a free video lecture series (five episodes) for INET on “feminist economics”, which she introduces below (there’s also a rich page of study resources):