Victoria Chick (April 8, 1936 – January 15, 2023) was a post-Keynesian economist known for her essays on monetary theory, banking and methodology.
[1] After the 2008 banking crisis she coined a corollary to Gresham's law, arguing that in orthodox economics "bad theory drives out good.
She had originally planned to study STEM subjects but found that "[science] was so sexist, a woman just could not survive – they hounded you out.
Her first major book, The Theory of Monetary Policy (1973), was a critical evaluation of both the Keynesian and monetarist approaches to macroeconomics that were dominant of the time.
[9] In 2014, Routledge published a two-volume Festschrift titled Money, Macroeconomics and Keynes: Essays in Honour of Victoria Chick, Volume 1, and Methodology, Microeconomics and Keynes: Essays in Honour of Victoria Chick, Volume 2, edited by Philip Arestis, Meghnad Desai and Sheila Dow.