Doni Hoffman asked Rickey Gard Diamond:

Hi Rickey, you're not an economist...how did you learn what you write about in Screwnomics? All the definitions, history, and stories? Thanks!

Rickey Gard Diamond I learned the hard way, the way most of us do! I discovered the pay gap years after I suffered the shame of working full time, same as my ex-husband had, but NOT being able to make my budget work. I finally went to the welfare office. After that I joined the War on Poverty and learned and wrote about systems that disadvantaged women and people of color and the majority. I became curious about Wall Street's "creative writing" while teaching at Vermont College, and designed seminars connecting literature and economics, presenting at NOW's Economic Summit in 2008 on dangers of a male economic ecology. My critique of economics is language-based because language not only names things (and in economics, often wrongly or omitting women and nature). Language shapes how we think about things. Right now economics is waged as war. We need to wage life!

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