An English translation by Saskia Vogel was published in the United Kingdom under the title Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? The book has since been translated to 20 languages. Margaret Atwood called it “A smart, funny, readable book on economics, money and women.”. In 2015, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women. 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.
A feminist critique of new-liberalism.
How do you get your dinner? That is the basic question of economics. It might seem easy, but it is actually very complicated. When economist and philosopher Adam Smith proclaimed that all our actions were motivated by self-interest, and that the world turns because of financial gain, he laid the foundations for 'economic man'.
Selfish and cynical, 'economic man' has dominated our thinking ever since – he is 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, it's because their labour is worth less.
In this engaging, popular look at the mess we're in, Katrine Marçal charts the myth of economic man, from its origins at Adam Smith's dinner table, its adaptation by the Chicago School, and, finally its disastrous role in the 2008 Global Financial Crisis — and invites us to kick out economic man once and for all.
PRAISE FOR KATRINE MARÇAL
'The word economy comes from the Greek oikos, meaning home, and yet until recently, economists failed to factor home economics — women's unpaid work — into their equations ... As Katrine Marçal so wittily shows, this masculine construction is a myth that ignores the irrational, emotional and often altruistic reality of our lives ... This wonderfully accessible and entertaining book empowers readers to question the economic 'truths' that have come to dominate our lives.' The Sydney Morning Herald
Saskia Vogel is a writer and translator from Swedish and German. Her stories have appeared in the White Review, the Erotic Review, SCARF, and Zocalo Public Square. She is completing her first novel. She blogs at saskiavogel.com.
Katrine Marçal is a Swedish writer living in London. She writes a weekly column about politics and economics for Aftonbladet, Scandinavia's largest daily newspaper. Her book, The Only Sex, was shortlisted for the August Prize in 2012. Her writing ...
Katrine Linda Mathilda Marçal (néeKielos; born 24 October 1983[1]) is a Swedish writer, journalist and correspondent for Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter. She lives in Hertfordshire.[2]
Marçal earlier served as chief editorialist of the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet where she mainly wrote articles about Swedish and international financial politics and feminism. She has a Bachelor's degree from Uppsala universitet[3] and has also been a freelance writer for Expressen's culture page.[4] In 2013, the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter awarded Marçal the third annual Lagercrantzen prize for critics.[4] She received the Jolo-prize for journalism in 2015.
Marçal's book Det enda könet, which discusses the relationship between economics and patriarchy, was nominated for the August Prize in 2012.[5] An English translation by Saskia Vogel was published in the United Kingdom under the title Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?.[6] The book has since been translated to 20 languages. Margaret Atwood called it “A smart, funny, readable book on economics, money [and] women.”.[7]
In 2015, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.[8]
Marçal has interviewed leading economists and investors like Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Steve Eisman as part of her work for the Swedish financial news channel EFN. Her interview with former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis about the European debt crisis has been viewed more than 1 million times on YouTube.
Since 2014, she is married to British garden designer Guy Marçal, from who she took his current surname.[9]
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