Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?

[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 – Caroline Criado-Perez * New Statesman *Polemical and entertaining * Observer *Smart, funny and readable – Margaret AtwoodA welcome addition to a canon dominated by men. With feminist incisiveness [Marçal] looks at the mess we’re in. Witty and perceptive – Vanessa Baird * New Internationalist *Economics through a wholly different prism - challenging and illuminating – Will Hutton, author * 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 – Nina Power, author * One Dimensional Woman *[A] wise critique of current economics – Lesley McDowell * 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 – Philip Roscoe, author * I Spend Therefore I Am *Required reading for everyone on the left… buy it as a pledge to change the world – Caroline Criado-Perez, author * Do It Like A Woman *Thought provoking – Jessica Abrahams * Prospect *The book skewers “economic man” […] with admirable wit and lightness of touch – Nick Spencer * Tablet *

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.