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Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?: A Story About Women and Economics by Katrine Marcal (Paperback, 2015)
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It is t from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest When Adam Smith wrote that all our actions stem from self-interest and the world turns because of financial gain he brought to life 'ecomic man'. Selfish and cynical, ecomic man has dominated our thinking ever since and his influence has spread from the market to how we shop, work and date. But every night Adam Smith's mother served him his dinner, t out of self-interest but out of love. Today, our ecomics focuses on self-interest and excludes all other motivations. It disregards the unpaid work of mothering, caring, cleaning and cooking. It insists that if women are paid less, then that's because their labour is worth less - how could it be otherwise? Ecomics has told us a story about how the world works and we have swallowed it, hook, line and sinker. Now it's time to change the story. In this courageous look at the mess we're in, Katrine Marcal tackles the biggest myth of our time and invites us to kick out ecomic man once and for all.Product Identifiers
PublisherGranta Books, Portobello Books Ltd
ISBN-101846275644
ISBN-139781846275647
eBay Product ID (ePID)209038549
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SubjectEconomics: Professional & General
LanguageEnglish
TypeTextbook
AuthorKatrine Marcal
FormatPaperback
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Date of Publication05/03/2015
Place of PublicationLondon
Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom
Author BiographyKATRINE MARCAL is the lead editorial writer for the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, where she writes articles on Swedish and international politics, economics and feminism. On publication in Sweden, Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner was shortlisted for the August Prize and won the Lagercrantzen Award. She lives in London.
