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100 1 _aMarçal, Katrine,
_eauthor.
240 1 0 _aEnda könet.
_lEnglish
245 1 0 _aWho cooked Adam Smith's dinner? :
_bA story about women and economics /
_cKatrine Marçal ; translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel.
264 1 _aLondon :
_bPortobello Books,
_c2015.
300 _aix, 230 pages ;
_c22 cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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505 _aSynopsis: It is not 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 'economic man'. Selfish and cynical, economic 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, not out of self-interest but out of love. Today, our economics 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? Economics 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 Mar�al tackles the biggest myth of our time and invites us to kick out economic man once and for all.
520 _a"How do you get your dinner? That is the basic question of economics. It might seem easy, but it is actually very complicated. When Adam Smith proclaimed that all our actions were motivated by self-interest and the world turned because of financial gain he laid the foundations for 'economic man'. Selfish and cynical, 'economic man' has dominated our thinking ever since, the ugly rational heart of modern day capitalism. But every night Adam Smith's mother served him his dinner, not out of self-interest, but out of love.Even today, the unpaid work of mothering, caring, cleaning and cooking is not part of our economic models. All over the world, there are economists who believe that if women are paid less, then that's because their labour is worth less. In this engaging, popular look at the mess we're in, Katrine Kielos charts the myth of 'economic man', from its origins at Adam Smith's dinner table to its adaptation by the Chicago School and finally its disastrous role in the 2008 Global Financial Crisis"--Publisher's description.
546 _aTranslated from the Swedish.
650 0 _aCapitalism.
650 0 _aFeminist economics.
650 0 _aEconomic man.
650 0 _aSelf-interest.
650 0 _aEconomics
_xSociological aspects.
650 7 _aEconomic man.
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_0(OCoLC)fst00902023
650 7 _aEconomics
_xSociological aspects.
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650 7 _aSelf-interest.
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_0(OCoLC)fst01111775
700 1 _aMarçal, Katrine.
_tEnda könet.
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