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title: "Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?: A Story of Women and Economics Paperback – May 9, 2017"
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# Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?: A Story of Women and Economics Paperback – May 9, 2017

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## Customer Reviews

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    His mom.
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 17, 2023*

Not really a spoiler. 'Economic man" pervades  all aspects of society. What if economic woman was just as important?What does that Q even mean?

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    This is the story of how we have turned a theory that we know isn't very good into the ideal that we should in fact try ...
  

*by A***G on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 27, 2016*

A reexamination of the foundations of economics as born in Wealth of Nations. It is a feminist perspective and it is about women, but it is not really at the same time. More so it is a critique of the rational actor or 'economic man' as it is called here. We all know this is nonsense even the economists who hang their life's work on economic theory that relies on this. This book sets up a story of first how we got this economic man and how Margaret Douglas cooking her son's meal her whole life being left out got us in this mess and second the long range consequences of not just ignoring women and unpaid labor but pretending any one is truly a rational actor in reality. This is the story of how we have turned a theory that we know isn't very good into the ideal that we should in fact try to become. Very interesting read. Quite funny. The only clue I had that this was a translation was not so much the phrasing but that some examples are of the native Sweden which is odd unless it is a Swedish book as an American reader.

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    A good eye opener into the obfuscation of women's work
  

*by P***I on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 25, 2016*

A  good  eye  opener  into  the  obfuscation of  women's  work.  All  mothering -  the  daily  physical labor,  the  constant  monitoring  and anguish, the  loss  sleep;  the life  time  of  care  -  let alone  the  housework  NOT  PAID,  NOT  RECOGNIZED  BY  '  ECONOMIC  MAN'...And  those  who are  poor  and  stupid and  lazy and shiftless.  That  is  what  Marcal  brings to the  front...Wish I knew more  about  economics as s he  draws  on  economic  theory.  Only complaint,  she  maligns  Freud and  she  was  wrong  about that. I  give her  a pass  as  her other  areas  are  very  vital.

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