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Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? A Story About Women and Economics

Marçal, Katrine
Heftet / 2016 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781846275661
Publisert
2016-01-07
Utgiver
Vendor
Granta Books
Vekt
173 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
14 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
240

Forfatter
Marçal, Katrine
Oversetter
Vogel Saskia

Biographical note

Katrine Marçal is a correspondent for the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. On publication in Sweden, Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner was shortlisted for The August Prize and won the Lagercrantzen Award. She lives in Hertfordshire.

Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? A Story About Women and Economics

Marçal, Katrine
Heftet / 2016 / Engelsk
Marçal, Katrine
Heftet / 2016 / Engelsk
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Adam Smith, the founder of modern economics, believed that our actions stem from self-interest and the world turns because of financial gain. But every night Adam Smith's mother served him his dinner, not out of self-interest but out of love.Today, economics focuses on self-interest and excludes our other motivations. It disregards the unpaid work of mothering, caring, cleaning and cooking and its influence has spread from the market to how we shop, think and date. In this engaging takedown of the economics that has failed us, Katrine Marçal journeys from Adam Smith's dinner table to the recent financial crisis and shows us how different, how much better, things could be.
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[A] spirited and witty manifesto... In commanding rhetoric punctuated with spiky wit... Marçal does not seek to yoke every last aspect of our lives to the tyranny of Homo economicus. Rather, she asks why we have fetishised the myth, and suggests that man denuded of his humanity is not such a figure to aspire to after all
Les mer
Politically engaged but shy of economics? Sharp, funny and thought-provoking, Marçal exposes how our economics is failing us all (but particularly women) and how much better things could be

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Adam Smith, the founder of modern economics, believed that our actions stem from self-interest and the world turns because of financial gain. But every night Adam Smith's mother served him his dinner, not out of self-interest but out of love.Today, economics focuses on self-interest and excludes our other motivations. It disregards the unpaid work of mothering, caring, cleaning and cooking and its influence has spread from the market to how we shop, think and date. In this engaging takedown of the economics that has failed us, Katrine Marçal journeys from Adam Smith's dinner table to the recent financial crisis and shows us how different, how much better, things could be.
Les mer
[A] spirited and witty manifesto... In commanding rhetoric punctuated with spiky wit... Marçal does not seek to yoke every last aspect of our lives to the tyranny of Homo economicus. Rather, she asks why we have fetishised the myth, and suggests that man denuded of his humanity is not such a figure to aspire to after all
Les mer
Politically engaged but shy of economics? Sharp, funny and thought-provoking, Marçal exposes how our economics is failing us all (but particularly women) and how much better things could be

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781846275661
Publisert
2016-01-07
Utgiver
Vendor
Granta Books
Vekt
173 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
14 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
240

Forfatter
Marçal, Katrine
Oversetter
Vogel Saskia

Biographical note

Katrine Marçal is a correspondent for the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. On publication in Sweden, Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner was shortlisted for The August Prize and won the Lagercrantzen Award. She lives in Hertfordshire.

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