Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?

Download or read book Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? written by Katrine Marçal and published by Portobello Books. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Maral journeys from Adam Smith's dinner table to the recent financial crisis and shows us how different, how much better, things could be.