Politically engaged but shy of economics? Sharp, funny and thought-provoking, Marçal exposes how our economics is failing us all (but particularly women) and how much better things could be
Katrine Marçal 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.
[A] spirited and witty manifesto... In commanding rhetoric
punctuated with spiky wit... Marçal 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
*New Statesman*
Polemical and entertaining
*Observer*
Smart, funny and readable
*Margaret Atwood*
A welcome addition to a canon dominated by men. With feminist
incisiveness [Marçal] looks at the mess we're in. Witty and
perceptive
*New Internationalist*
Economics through a wholly different prism - challenging and
illuminating
*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 Marçal's book is
instructive, angry and funny: economic man has met his match
*One Dimensional Woman*
[A] wise critique of current economics
*Sunday Herald*
Who cooked Adam Smith's dinner? His mother, of course. From this
compelling insight, Katrine Marçal 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
*I Spend Therefore I Am*
Required reading for everyone on the left... buy it as a pledge to
change the world
*Do It Like A Woman*
Thought provoking
*Prospect*
The book skewers "economic man" [...] with admirable wit and
lightness of touch
*Tablet*
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