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Who Cooked Adam Smiths Dinner
''Who cooked Adam Smith's dinner? A story about women and economics'' is a 2015 book by the award-winning writer and journalist Katrine Marçal that offers a critique of economics. Marçal reveal historical neglect and underestimation of women's societal contributions and their lack of representation in the theories from within the field of economics. Content Marçal's critique challenges the long-standing oversight of women's roles, particularly within the domestic sphere. She exposes how economists have consistently disregarded the intricate fabric of domestic activities that underpins society. Economistic thinking Marçal's notices a historical progression in how society has become more and more obsessed with economics. For example, Marçal notes that Gary Beckers Economistic fallacy, economistic thinking was considered taboo within the field of economics at first since it was too extreme. Since Beckers definition of economics was "that it was a logic that can be applied ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katrine Marçal
Katrine Linda Mathilda Kielos-Marçal (''née'' Kielos; born 24 October 1983) is a Swedish people, Swedish author, journalist and correspondent for Swedish daily newspaper ''Dagens Nyheter''. Biography Kielos-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 and has also been a freelance writer for ''Expressen''s culture page. In 2013, the Swedish newspaper ''Dagens Nyheter'' awarded Marçal the third annual Lagercrantzen prize for critics. She received the :sv:Jolopriset, Jolo Prize for Journalism in 2015. Kielos-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 European debt crisis, the European debt crisis has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
