A Story About Women and Economics
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Köp båda 2 för 417 krWATERSTONES BEST POLITICAL BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL I am absurdly excited for this book Caroline Criado Perez Bestselling author Katrine Maral reveals the shocking ways our deeply ingrained ideas about gender...
[A] spirited and witty manifesto... In commanding rhetoric punctuated with spiky wit... Maral does not seek to yoke every last aspect of our lives to the tyranny of Homo economicus. Rather, she asks why we have fetishised the myth, and suggests that man denuded of his humanity is not such a figure to aspire to after all -- Caroline Criado-Perez * New Statesman * Polemical and entertaining * Observer * Smart, funny and readable -- Margaret Atwood A welcome addition to a canon dominated by men. With feminist incisiveness [Maral] looks at the mess we're in. Witty and perceptive -- Vanessa Baird * New Internationalist * Economics through a wholly different prism - challenging and illuminating -- Will Hutton, author * Them and Us * Incisive and witty, Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? seeks to restore a sense of humanity, empathy and care to our picture of economic and gender relations. Katrine Maral's book is instructive, angry and funny: economic man has met his match -- Nina Power, author * One Dimensional Woman * [A] wise critique of current economics -- Lesley McDowell * Sunday Herald * Who cooked Adam Smith's dinner? His mother, of course. From this compelling insight, Katrine Maral builds her critique of economic man, exposing him for the sham he really is. Erudite, furious, and eminently readable, this book will send a great many economists running for cover -- Philip Roscoe, author * I Spend Therefore I Am * Required reading for everyone on the left... buy it as a pledge to change the world -- Caroline Criado-Perez, author * Do It Like A Woman * Thought provoking -- Jessica Abrahams * Prospect * The book skewers "economic man" [...] with admirable wit and lightness of touch -- Nick Spencer * Tablet *
Katrine Maral 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.