
Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?: A Story of Women and Economics
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Book Information
Publisher: | Pegasus Books |
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Publish Date: | 06/07/2016 |
Pages: | 240 |
ISBN-13: | 9781681771427 |
ISBN-10: | 168177142X |
Language: | Eng |
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Nevertheless, the economic man has dominated our understanding of modern-day capitalism, with a focus on self-interest and the exclusion of all other motivations. Such a view point disregards the unpaid work of mothering, caring, cleaning and cooking. It insists that if women are paid less, then that's because their labor is worth less. Economics has told us a story about how the world works and we have swallowed it, hook, line and sinker. This story has not served women well. Now it's time to change it.
A kind of femininst Freakonomics, Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? charts the myth of economic man -- from its origins at Adam Smith's dinner table, its adaptation by the Chicago School, and its disastrous role in the 2008 Global Financial Crisis -- in a witty and courageous dismantling of one of the biggest myths of our time.