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The Duncan Ironmonger Archive

The Australian economist Duncan Ironmonger, who passed away in 2024, was a pioneer of creative efforts to assign a market value to unpaid care work. His extensive published work includes “Counting outputs, capital inputs and caring labor: Estimating gross household product,” published in Feminist Economics in 1996. His ideas have been a major influence on my research.

I am. honored to include here a link to a pdf file of Duncan Ironmonger’s unpublished manuscript, The Neglected Economy: The Unfinished Business of Measuring and Understanding Household Production, the Hidden Half of our Economic System, with an introduction and overview by Michael Bittman and Faye Soupourmas-Dodich.