Does it matter that Britain has never had a female Chancellor of the Exchequer? It’s certainly a curiosity. The country has seen three female Prime Ministers — albeit of somewhat varying tenures — after all. Rachel Reeves, the Shadow Chancellor (and only the second woman to hold even that role) certainly thinks it's important.
Her book, The Women Who Made Modern Economics is part economic biography and part conference speech. With casual references to monopsony, macroeconomic frameworks and MV=PQ (me neither) this is not your average ‘get to know me’ political memoir. Reeves knows economics, and isn’t afraid to show it.
