>Last night (Tuesday, March 12, 9:30-11:30, PST) on KQED Public TV >in San Francisco a video presentation featuring Marilyn Waring >was aired. Waring is the author of the book "Who's Counting," >internationally published. In some countries the title is "If >Women Counted." (The computer at Stacey's books in SF was not >able to come up with this book, however. So, I don't yet know >how to get it.) > >The video is currently available through KQED for $150 as part of >the current KQED membership drive. (For the $150 you get a year >membership in KQED + the video -- not relevant for anyone outside >the Bay Area, I know.) The video includes a "study guide." You >may not be able to purchase the video anywhere else at this time. >(When I called the national video number through which service >most PBS videos are available, I was told that this video is >only available through KQED at present.) Bullfrog Films distributes the video, "Who's Counting?" Their voice phone number is 800-543-3764. Email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In the U.S. Waring's book is, IF WOMEN COUNTED: A NEW FEMINIST ECONOMICS. Harper and Row, 1988. I believe it's out of print but that's heresay. Friends of mine said the video is "boring." I've now watched it four times, and while that gets a bit tired, it's still not painful. The main useful point for intro econ (I've used it in both macro and micro) is to challenge the notions that GDP = standard of living, that firms produce and households consume (as in the "circular flow of spending and income), that the market is a useful/reasonable/good measure of value, and finally to question the positivist pretensions of neoclassical theory. My students have seemed to find it interesting enough, and they certainly get the point. ************************ Blair Sandler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
