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Who cooked Adam Smith's dinner? : a story about women and economics / Katrine Marcal ; translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel.

Who cooked Adam Smith's dinner? : a story about women and economics / Katrine Marcal ; translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel.
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Record Number 17545
ISBN 9781846275647
Location 306.3 MAR
Author Marcal, Katrine
Title Who cooked Adam Smith's dinner? : a story about women and economics / Katrine Marcal ; translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel. [BOOK]
Published London Portobello Books, 2015.
Collation ix, 230 pages ; 22 cm.
General Note Originally published (without the introduction and epilogue in Swedish as Det enda konet: varfor du ar forford av den ekonomiske mannen och hur det fostor ditt liv och vvarldsekonomin by Albert Bonniers Forlag in 2012.
Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Note 1. In which we climb into the world of economics and ask ourselves who Adam Smith's mother was -- 2. In which we are introduced to economic man and realize that he is incredibly seductive -- 3. In which it becomes apparent that economic man is not a woman -- 4. In which we see that our pact with economic man isn't turning out as we had expected -- 5. In which we add women and stir -- 6. In which Las Vegas and Wall Street merge -- 7. In which the global economy goes to hell -- 8. In which we see that men are also not life economic man -- 9. In which economic incentives aren't shown to be as uncomplicated as we might think -- 10. In which we see that you aren't selfish just because you want more money -- 11. In which we see that a negative number is still zero -- 12. In which we all become entrepreneurs -- 13. In which we see that the uterus isn't a space capsule --
14. In which we discover economic man's unforeseen depths and fears -- 15. In which we see that the greatest story of our time only has one sex -- 16. In which we will see that every society suffers in line with its bullshit. And we say goodbye.
Summary Note 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 Marcal tackles the biggest myth of our time and invites us to kick out economic man once and for all.
Language Note Translated from Swedish.
Subject Economic man
Self-interest
Economics -- Sociological aspects
Feminist economics
Capitalism
Economic man
Economics -- Sociological aspects
Self-interest
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