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Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?
Katrine Marcal
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Description for Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 173.
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 Marcal journeys from Adam Smith's dinner table to the recent financial crisis and ... Read more
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 Marcal journeys from Adam Smith's dinner table to the recent financial crisis and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846275661
SKU
V9781846275661
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About Katrine Marcal
Katrine Marcal 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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