Similar or different? A comparison of Austrian and feminist economics
Similar or different? A comparison of Austrian and feminist economics

Summary/Abstract: Some researchers, including Horwitz (1995), point out similarities between two heterodox schools of economic thought,viz. the Austrians and the feminists. These similarities include criticisms of neoclassical assumptions about the rational-ity of market participants, perfect competition, and the mathematization of economics. This paper, however, argues thatthese similarities are superficial, as there are numerous methodological differences between these two schools that haveled to divergent views on such issues as the nature of orthodox economics and its research methods, subjectivity, util-ity functions and their interpersonal comparison, market competition, and gender discrimination in the labor market. It iscontended that these differences are difficult to reconcile, making any rapprochement between the two schools unlikely.

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