Maxine Berg

Maxine Berg teaches economics at the University of Warwick. Her book The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy was reviewed here not long ago.

Letter

Learned Ladies

5 September 1996

Mary Beard (LRB, 5 September) rightly denounces too cosy and introverted a reading of Cambridge women’s lives. It is a pity, then, that by confining her interests to Cambridge she fails to make more of the career of one who got away. Eileen Power left Cambridge for good in 1920 (not the Thirties) for the more mixed and cosmopolitan environment of the LSE. But even here, in a university where women...

Pieces about Maxine Berg in the LRB

Pull as archer, in lbs

Mary Beard, 5 September 1996

You educate your women at the expense of their reserve fund; and after all you find they marry, and make very unsatisfactory and physically inefficient mothers ... You may think you have done no...

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The light that failed

Peter Clarke, 18 September 1980

There is sometimes rather a fine distinction between a paradox and a fallacy. It has often been remarked upon as a paradox that, in the great age of British expansion during the Industrial...

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