1. Economics is a discipline marked as explanatory rather than a domain to be explained.
Strassmann (1993) critiques economics for its disciplinary structure. Most disciplines define themselves by the domain they wish to examine, economics is instead defined by its explanation of things work.
2. Economics is based on central stories about the value of market exchange.
Economics privileges the market exchange. Since women have historically be excluded from this exchange, economics has therefore proceeded without fully accounting for women's existence in economies. To remedy this fact, stories have emerged that justify and dismiss women's oppressed position in capitalist economies.
3. Since market exchange is so central to economics as a theory and discipline, changes in economic structure are very difficult.
Economics frames itself as an approach that is built around certain core assumptions. Some problems in economics are related to things like self-interested individualism, which are very close to the core of economics.
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