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Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?: A Story About Women and Economics

Katrine Mar?al

Saskia Vogel

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 Mar?al journeys from Adam Smith's dinner table to the recent financial crisis and shows us how different, how much better, things could be.

  • Classification : Business, Management & Economics
  • Pub Date : JAN 7, 2016
  • Imprint : Granta
  • Page Extent : 240
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781846275661
  • Price : INR 1,099
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Katrine Mar?al

Katrine Mar?al 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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Saskia Vogel

Saskia Vogel is from Los Angeles and lives in Berlin where she works as a writer and Swedish-to-English literary translator. She has written on power and sexuality for publications such as Paris Review Daily The White Review Sight and Sound and The Offing. Previously she worked as Granta magazine's publicist and as an editor at the
AVN Media Network where she reported on pornography and adult pleasure products.

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