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賲賳 賯丕賲 亘胤賴賷 毓卮丕亍 丌丿賲 爻賲賷孬責 賯氐丞 毓賳 丕賱賳爻丕亍 賵丕賱丕賯鬲氐丕丿

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賷賯丿賲 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱匕賷 亘賷賳 兀賷丿賷賳丕 賲丿禺賱丕賸 賳爻賵賷丕賸 賱賲爻丕亍賱丞 毓賱賲 丕賱丕賯鬲氐丕丿 丕賱爻賷丕爻賷貙 賵鬲亘丨孬 賴匕賴 丕賱賲丐賱賮丞-丕賱鬲賷 賮丕夭鬲 亘噩賵丕卅夭 賲乇賲賵賯丞 毓賳 賴匕丕 丕賱毓賲賱-丿賵乇 毓賲賱 丕賱賳爻丕亍 睾賷乇 丕賱賲丿賮賵毓 賮賷 丕賱賲賳夭賱 賵賮賷 丕賱丕賯鬲氐丕丿 賲噩丕丿賱丞 亘兀賳 丕賱賯賷賲丞 丕賱賲賳鬲噩丞 毓亘乇 賴匕丕 丕賱毓賲賱 鬲賲 廿賴賲丕賱 丨爻丕亘賴丕 毓賳 毓賲丿 賲賳 賯亘賱 丕賱丕賯鬲氐丕丿賷賷賳. 賯丕賲 丌丿賲 爻賲孬 毓丕賱賲 丕賱丕賯鬲氐丕丿 丕賱兀卮賴乇貙 賵氐丕丨亘 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱卮賴賷乇 "孬乇賵丞 丕賱兀賲賲" 亘鬲兀爻賷爻 兀丨丿 丕賱賲賮丕賴賷賲 丕賱爻丕卅丿丞 賮賷 丕賱賮賰乇 丕賱丕賯鬲氐丕丿賷 丨鬲賶 丕賱賷賵賲貙 賵賴賵 賲賮賴賵賲 "丕賱廿賳爻丕賳 丕賱丕賯鬲氐丕丿賷" 賵毓亘乇 胤乇丨賴丕 賱爻丐丕賱: 賲賳 賯丕賲 亘胤賴賷 毓卮丕亍 丌丿賲 爻賲孬責 鬲卮乇丨 兀賳賴 廿匕丕 賰丕賳 丕賱噩夭丕乇 賵丕賱賮賱丕丨 賵睾賷乇賴賲丕 賷丨氐賱賵賳 毓賱賶 兀噩乇 賲賯丕亘賱 賲爻丕賴賲鬲賴賲 賮賷 鬲丨囟賷乇 毓卮丕亍 兀賷 乇噩賱貙 賮廿賳 兀賲賴/夭賵噩鬲賴 賴賷 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賯賵賲 亘賰賱 賲丕 鬲鬲胤賱亘賴 丕賱賲乇丨賱丞 丕賱兀禺賷乇丞 賲賳 廿毓丿丕丿 丕賱賵噩亘丞 賵鬲賯丿賷賲賴丕 丿賵賳 賲賯丕亘賱. 賰鬲丕亘 噩乇賶亍 賵賲賲鬲毓.. 賵賷毓丿 賲賳 兀賮囟賱 丕賱賰鬲亘 丕賱鬲賷 鬲乇亘胤 亘賷賳 丕賱兀賮賰丕乇 丕賱賳爻賵賷丞 賵丕賱丕賯鬲氐丕丿.

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First published January 1, 2012

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September 18, 2018
As a feminist who is studying economics (at the Master's level), I was excited to read Katrine Mar莽al's book "Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?". The book purports to analyze and criticize the foundation of economics and argue that economics has excluded women due to the foundational assumption of economic man. To Mar莽al, "economic man" is everything that a man is, while failing to acknowledge everything that a woman is, even though women are the invisible labour in our economy that keeps it running. She argues that economics has "added women and stirred", but has failed to actually adapt to including women in their analysis'.

While I cannot (and will not) argue that economics doesn't exclude women, I have huge problems with the way Mar莽al goes about proving her point. She criticizes economics for being too simplified and then does it herself! (Oh, the irony.) She glosses over important details and makes sweeping generalizations about the discipline, to the point of being false. One example of this is that she asserts over and over again that economics only studies the individual (not how individuals interact with one another) and doesn't relax any of the "economic man assumptions", yet completely fails to take into account the sub-disciplines of both Game Theory and Behavourial Economics (the latter is mentioned very briefly in passing). Another is that she paints a picture of economists only having an interest in hypothetical, non-important questions, even though there are many fields of economics concerned with improving the quality of human life (and I don't just mean GDP per capita), such as development economics, health economics, labour economics, etc. Also, she dismisses economics, and yet uses economic studies as proof!! (Again, the irony). I often found myself reading statements she would write and wondering how the heck she'd made the logical leap and where the proof was. This was especially problematic. And lastly, her writing style was jarring and unsuited to the non-fiction writing of the sort she was trying to do. Overall, I would not recommend this book to anyone, especially not someone who studies economics, because it's just going to frustrate you.
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March 27, 2019
If you are wondering what the answer to the title鈥檚 question, it was his mother. Adam Smith never married and was cared for by his mother and a female cousin. Without whom he would never have had the time to write The Wealth of Nations.

Very appropriately, this book was penned by a young Swedish woman. She is properly outraged by the assumptions of the field of economics that women and many of the tasks that they undertake really don鈥檛 count. She points out that the world gets split in two鈥攎ale/female, logic/emotion, spirit/body, etc. and the female/emotional/physical gets short shrift in economic theory. Which is silly when you truly consider it, as we are all emotional and physical beings and we are all far from completely logical. Its this kind of deliberate omitting of important things that leads to environmental destruction (assuming it to be without cost) and the difficulty of getting food and medical care to those that need it around the world (because feeding & caring are 鈥渇emale鈥� responsibilities, so they should be done for free and shouldn鈥檛 be a factor in economic systems or a worry of politicians).

Self-interest exists, we all have it. But we also have people that we care about and for whom we do things that don鈥檛 make sense logically. We also do nice things for people we don鈥檛 even know鈥攇ive directions, hand over spare change, say 鈥榩lease鈥� and 鈥榯hank you.鈥� It doesn鈥檛 make sense to run the financial world as though none of this exists or to act as though it only exists outside the financial world. While we are working to make the world a more equal place, maybe we can renovate economics to acknowledge reality?
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June 21, 2015
I enjoyed this book because the author took familiar economic ideas and turned them on their heads. Her point seems to be that economists have primarily been men and have developed an idea of rational "economic man" for how the world should work, leaving out the real "invisible hand", that is, the hand of a (usually unpaid) woman who is taking care of all the nurturing sorts of roles in society so that economic man can go out and manage the "real" economy. She said Adam Smith only mentioned the "invisible hand" of the marketplace once in his "Wealth of Nations", but that idea was picked up by neoliberals and has been dominant in our economy for the past thirty or more years. Smith's idea was that economic man acted in self-interest, but that, through the magic of the market, every self-interested transaction contributed to a smoothly running, prosperous whole. She says that even when a new branch of study , such as behavioral economics, is developed, it still uses traditional economic man as a reference point. For example, Daniel Kahneman developed the idea that people don't , in fact, act rationally, but the state then used that information to try to nudge people toward state-sanctioned choices. As she says on page 153, "Of course, it's not behavioural economists' fault that their analysis is used to create shortcuts for politicians who want to avoid making difficult decisions. The theories are certainly a step in the right direction. But they don't change the fact that economics is still a science of choice--not a science about how society will survive, keep house and evolve. No overview of society and how people are created and formed in relation to each other is found within behavioural economics. Economics remains the study of the individual. It asserts that dependency is not a natural part of being human, and power relationships aren't economically relevant."
In the epilogue, the author finally tells us who Adam Smith's mother was: Margaret Douglas. On pages 192-193 she says, "Margaret Douglas is the missing piece of the puzzle. But it doesn't necessarily follow that when you find the missing piece the solution will become clear. 'There is no such thing as a free lunch' if one of the most-often quoted truths in economics. To this should be added: there is no such thing as free care. If society doesn't provide childcare that we all contribute to, then someone else will have to provide it. And that someone is most often a woman. Today, Margaret Douglas is the woman who reduces her hours at work to care for her grandchildren. She does this because she loves them and because there isn't any other solution. Her daughter and her son-in-law have their own jobs to go to. There's no chance their family could survive on one salary, when they can barely manage on two. It's usually women who reduce their working hours to care for their offspring and who, as a result, lose out on economic security, pension contributions and future earning. And it's our welfare, tax and pension systems that haven't been built to compensate them for this work or even take it into account. Women's responsibility for care is presented as a free choice out of your own free will, you have to accept the consequences. Everything from the Scandinavian welfare states to our neoliberal economies is built on women doing certain kinds of jobs in the workforce at a very low cost....And this is work that's often related to care, to duty, nursing the sick, children and the ageing. Can today's problems in healthcare and education even be discussed without this perspective? The modern-day Margaret Douglas often takes care both of the children and of her own or her partner's sick parents. Seventeen per cent of unemployed British women quit their last job to care for someone else. For men, that figure is one percent."
The book was translated from Swedish and used a lot of incomplete sentences to make emphatic statements. Somehow, this style made it seem choppy to me, so it didn't read smoothly. Still, the ideas were interesting, so the end experience was a positive one.
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丕賱亘賷賵賱賵噩賷丞 賱丕 鬲亘乇乇 丕賱賲賵丕賯賮 丕賱丕噩鬲賲丕毓賷丞. 鬲爻鬲胤賷毓 丕賱賲乇兀丞 賮爻賷賵賱賵噩賷丕 丨賲賱 胤賮賱 賱侃 卮賴賵乇 賵 賵賱丕丿鬲賴 賵 丕丨賷丕賳丕 乇囟丕毓鬲賴 賱毓丿丿 賲賳 丕賱卮賴賵乇 賱賰賳 丕賱胤亘賷毓丞 賱賲 鬲丨鬲賲 毓賱賷 丕賱賲乇兀丞 賵丨丿賴丕 丕賱毓賳丕賷丞 亘賴賲 丨鬲賶 丕賱亘賱賵睾. 賵 亘丕賱鬲兀賰賷丿 賱賲 鬲丨鬲賲 賲賳毓賴丕 賲賳 丕賱鬲氐賵賷鬲 賵 丕賱鬲乇卮丨 賵 丕賱毓賲賱 丕賱賲兀噩賵乇 賵 丕賱丕丿丕乇丞. 亘乇乇 賮乇賵賷丿 毓賱賲賷丕 丕賳 丕賱賳爻丕亍 丕賮囟賱 賮賷 賳馗丕賮丞 丕賱賲賳夭賱 賵 丕夭丕丨丞 丕賱睾亘丕乇 賱丕賳 丕賱賲賴亘賱 賲賰丕賳 賲賱賵孬 賱匕丕 賷丨鬲噩賳 丕賱賳馗丕賮丞. 賵 賱賰賳 賲丕匕丕 賷毓乇賮 賮乇賵賷丿 毓賳 丕賱賲賴亘賱 賲賳 丕賱兀氐賱責!

鬲丿禺賱 丕賱賲乇兀丞 爻賵賯 丕賱毓賲賱 賲賰亘賱丞 亘丕睾賱丕賱 丕賱賲賳夭賱 賵 丕賱乇毓丕賷丞 丕賱氐丨賷丞 賱賱丕胤賮丕賱 賵 賰亘丕乇 丕賱爻賳 賵 囟乇賵乇丞 丿賮毓 囟毓賮 丕賱賲噩賴賵丿 賱賱丨氐賵賱 毓賱賷 賳賮爻 丕賱賲賰丕賳丞 賵 賲賰丕賮丨丞 鬲賵鬲乇賴丕 賵 賯賱賯 毓丿賲 丕賱賰賮丕賷丞 賵 毓亘亍 丕禺鬲賷丕乇 丕賱卮乇賷賰 丕賱賲孬丕賱賷 賵 賯賵丕卅賲 丕賱鬲爻賵賯 賵 賳馗乇丞 丕賱丕丿丕乇丞 丕賱賯賱賯丞 賲賳 賯乇丕乇賴丕 亘鬲丨賵賷賱賴丕 賱賱毓賲賱 噩夭卅賷丕 丕賵 丕賱丕爻鬲賯丕賱丞 賮噩兀丞. 賷鬲賲 鬲氐賵賷乇 賲毓囟賱丞 丕賱鬲賵賮賷賯 亘賷賳 丕賱毓賲賱 賵 丕賱丨賷丕丞 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞 賵 賰兀賳賴丕 賲爻丐賵賱賷丞 丕賱賲乇兀丞 賮賯胤貙丕賲鬲丨丕賳 賱丕 賷賲乇 亘賴 丕賱乇噩丕賱 賲賳 丕賱兀氐賱 賵賱丕 賷鬲賲 丕賱丨賰賲 毓賱賷賴賲 賱賲爻鬲賵賷 賲賳丕夭賱賴賲. 鬲鬲賳氐賱 亘賷卅丞 丕賱毓賲賱 賲賳 丕賱兀賲乇 賵 賰兀賳 賲賳 賷毓賲賱賵賳 賰丕卅賳丕鬲 賱丕 鬲賲鬲賱賰 噩爻賲 賵賱丕 噩賳爻丕賳賷丞 賵 賱丕 毓丕卅賱丞 賵賱丕 爻賷丕賯.
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" 丕賱賮鬲丕丞 丕賱亘丕賱睾丞 賲賳 丕賱毓賲乇 11 毓丕賲賸丕 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賲卮賷 禺賲爻丞 毓卮乇 賰賷賱賵賲鬲乇賸丕 賰賱 氐亘丕丨 賱噩賲毓 丕賱丨胤亘 賱兀爻乇鬲賴丕 鬲賱毓亘 丿賵乇 賰亘賷乇 賮賷 賯丿乇丞 亘賱丿賴丕 毓賱賶 丕賱鬲胤賵乇 丕賱丕賯鬲氐丕丿賷. 賱賰賳 毓賲賱賴丕 睾賷乇 賲毓鬲乇賮 亘賴. 丕賱賮鬲丕丞 睾賷乇 賲乇卅賷丞 賮賷 丕賱廿丨氐丕亍丕鬲 丕賱丕賯鬲氐丕丿賷丞. 賮賷 丨爻丕亘 丕賱賳丕鬲噩 丕賱賲丨賱賷 丕賱廿噩賲丕賱賷 貙 丕賱匕賷 賷賯賷爻 廿噩賲丕賱賷 丕賱賳卮丕胤 丕賱丕賯鬲氐丕丿賷 賮賷 亘賱丿 賲丕 貙 賱丕 賷鬲賲 丕丨鬲爻丕亘賴丕. 賲丕 鬲賮毓賱賴 賱丕 賷毓鬲亘乇 賲賴賲丕 賱賱丕賯鬲氐丕丿 兀賵 賱賱賳賲賵. 廿賳噩丕亘 丕賱兀胤賮丕賱貙 賵鬲乇亘賷丞 丕賱兀胤賮丕賱 貙 賵夭乇丕毓丞 丨丿賷賯丞 貙 賵胤賴賷 丕賱胤毓丕賲 賱廿禺賵鬲賴丕 貙 賵丨賱亘 亘賯乇丞 丕賱毓丕卅賱丞 貙 賵氐賳毓 丕賱賲賱丕亘爻 賱兀賯丕乇亘賴丕 兀賵 丕賱丕毓鬲賳丕亍 亘丌丿賲 爻賲賷孬 賱賷鬲賲賰賳 賲賳 賰鬲丕亘丞 孬乇賵丞 丕賱兀賲賲. 賱丕 賷毓鬲亘乇 兀賷 賲賳 賴匕丕 "賳卮丕胤賸丕 廿賳鬲丕噩賷賸丕" 賮賷 丕賱賳賲丕匕噩 丕賱丕賯鬲氐丕丿賷丞 丕賱賯賷丕爻賷丞. 賵乇丕亍 丕賱賷丿 丕賱禺賮賷丞 賷賵噩丿 丕賱噩賳爻 丕賱禺賮賷. "
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丕匕丕 賰丕賳 丕丿賲 爻賲賷孬 賯丿賲 賱賳丕 氐賵乇丞 毓丕賱賲 丕賯鬲氐丕丿賷 丨乇 賷賲卮賷 亘爻賱丕爻丞 丕賱賷丿 丕賱禺賮賷丞 賵 鬲賰賮賷賴 賯賵賴 丕賳丿賮丕毓 丕賱鬲亘丕丿賱 丕賱鬲噩丕乇賷 丕賱丨乇 賵 鬲丨乇賰 丕賱丕孬賲丕賳 賵 丕賱賲賳賮毓丞 賵 賲亘丕丿卅 丕賱賲賳丕賮爻丞 賮丕賳 "賲丕乇噩乇賷鬲 丿賵噩賱丕爻" 賯丿賲鬲 賱賴 毓卮丕亍 賲噩丕賳賷 賰賱 賷賵賲 賲賳 丨賷丕鬲賴丕 亘丿賵賳 丕賳 賷購賳馗乇 丕賱賷 賯賵丞 毓賲賱賴丕 丕賵 賲賳賮毓鬲賴丕 丕賵 丨鬲賶 賷丿賴丕 丕賱馗丕賴乇丞. 賴賵 賰鬲丕亘 丕賯鬲氐丕丿賷 亘丕賱丕爻丕爻 亘賱賲爻丞 賳爻賵賷丞 孬丕賳賷丕貙 賰鬲丕亘 丕賯鬲氐丕丿賷 丕賲賷賱 賱賵噩賴丞 丕賱賳馗乇 丕賱賷爻丕乇賷丞 賲賳賴 丕賱賷 丕賷 卮卅.


賵毓丿賳丕 "丿毓賴 賷毓賲賱 丿毓賴 賷賲乇" 亘丕賯鬲氐丕丿 爻賱爻 賷爻賷乇 亘賱丕 賲卮丕賰賱 賰賱賲丕 賯賱賱賳丕 丕毓丕賯鬲賳丕 賱賴貙 賱賰賳 丕賱賳賷賵賱賷亘乇丕賱賷丞 鬲賵囟丨 亘賵囟賵丨 丕賳賴丕 爻鬲丿丕禺賱 賮賷 賰賱 卮卅 賱鬲鬲丨賯賯. 賱丕 鬲夭丿賴乇 丕賱乇兀爻賲丕賱賷丞 賮賷 睾丕亘丕鬲 丕賱賳賷噩乇 賱賰賳賴丕 鬲禺賱賯 賲賳 丿亘賷 賵丕丨丞 禺丕賱賷丞 賲賳 丕賱囟乇丕卅亘 賵 丕賱丿賷賲賯乇丕胤賷丞 賵 鬲賲鬲賱賰 丕賰亘乇 鬲噩賲毓 賱鬲夭丨賱賯 丕賱噩賱賷丿. 鬲毓賷丿 鬲毓乇賷賮 丕賱卮賰賱 丕賱賲丕乇賰爻賷 賱賱毓丕賲賱 賵 丕賱乇兀爻賲丕賱賷 賵 丕賱賲賵丕胤賳 丕賱賷 賲爻鬲賴賱賰賷賳 賱鬲賮鬲乇囟 丕賳賳丕 噩賲賷毓丕 "賷賲賰賳" 丕賳 賳賰賵賳 乇賵丕丿 丕毓賲丕賱 賵 賷亘賷毓賵丕 賱賳丕 賴匕丕 丕賱丨賱賲 丕賱賲爻鬲賯亘賱賷 賱賳丿賮毓 丕賱孬賲賳 賳賯丿賷 賵 丨丕賱丕.
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Ehm. Tengo opiniones.



Creo que este libro funciona muy bien para empezar a entender lo mal que funciona la econom铆a dentro del capitalismo y lo invisibles que a veces son las mujeres en ella. Para quien sabe de econom铆a quiz谩 pueda parecer redundante (creo, a m铆 me cuesta entender de econom铆a). Creo que su mayor valor son sus explicaciones claras sobre el modelo de la econom铆a actual (el capitalismo) y el papel de la mujer en 茅l. Explica las bases de lo que plante贸 Adam Smith hace muchos a帽os y en esas explicaciones es obvio porque mi beb茅 Marx ten铆a raz贸n porque nos estamos yendo al precipicio. Me pareci贸 una lectura muy promedio que sin embargo de repente s铆 habla sobre lo invisibles que son las mujeres en la econom铆a. Por ejemplo:
La ni帽a de once a帽os que todas las ma帽anas recorre quince kil贸metros en busca de le帽a para su familia desempe帽a un papel enorme en el desarrollo econ贸mico de su pa铆s. A pesar de ellos, su trabajo no es reconocido. La chica es invisible en las estad铆sticas econ贸micas. En la magnitud del PIB, por la cual medimos la actividad econ贸mica de un pa铆s, ella no cuenta. Su actividad no se considera importante para la econom铆a o para el crecimiento econ贸mico. Parir ni帽os, criarlos, cultivar el huerto, hacerles la comida a los hermanos, orde帽ar la vaca de la familia, coserles la ropa o cuidar de Adam Smith para que 茅l pudiera escribir 鈥淟a riqueza de las naciones鈥�; nada de esto se considera 鈥渢rabajo productivo鈥� en los modelos econ贸micos est谩ndar. Fuera del alcance de la mano invisible se encuentra el sexo invisible.

Me gustar铆a que hubiera hablado un poco m谩s de la precarizaci贸n de aquellos trabajos que son vistos como femeninos (aka la divisi贸n sexual del trabajo) y que reconociera a quienes s铆 han hablado de mujeres y econom铆a (un vistazo a El origen de la propiedad privada, la familia y el Estado de Engels hubiera estado muy padre porque justamente Engels ahondaba en c贸mo la mujer, para el capitalismo, era un ser improductivo mientras estaba confinada a lo dom茅stico) y ya. Las partes que valen la pena del libro son precisamente las que dejan ver lo surreal que es el capitalismo, pero lo que propone la autora ya no me gusta tanto. Siento que se queda en el reformismo y no plantea nada realmente revolucionario. Cambiar el sistema no sirve de nada si el mismo sistema est谩 basado en la explotaci贸n del hombre por el hombre (hombre as in la raza humana, porque el lenguaje no es precisamente vers谩til).

Por otro lado, tantos a帽os y sigo sin entender por qu茅 el tema del techo de cristal es tan relevante. En todos lados, cuando se habla de feminismo y econom铆a, se habla de c贸mo las mujeres son la minor铆a en los puestos de poder y hay menos SEO mujeres que hombres. Para m铆 la lucha para romper el techo de cristal nunca ha sido algo que sea prioritario en mi vida porque pues... 驴para qu茅? 驴Para hacer la explotaci贸n m谩s equitativa? La cosa es que los hombres y las mujeres que est谩n hoy en esos puestos no velan por los intereses de ninguna clase trabajadora, sino por los de la suya. En fin, este es un comentario al aire, porque claro, en alg煤n punto el libro trata el tema del techo de cristal y a m铆 pues eso no me va ni me viene a estas alturas de la vida.

Bueno, como conclusi贸n: creo que para entender c贸mo funciona la econom铆a no est谩 nada mal pero que en sus propuestas es muy "隆vamos a reformar el capitalismo!" y para qu茅 querr铆amos reformar un sistema que no funciona en vez de dinamitarlo... yo s贸lo digo. Si quieren hacer una lectura cr铆tica, por supuesto que recomendado.
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May 12, 2023
廿匕丕 賰賳鬲 鬲亘丨孬 毓賳 廿噩丕亘丞 爻丐丕賱 丕賱睾賱丕賮.. 兀丨亘 丕賯賵賱 賱賰 丕賳 丕賱賱賷 胤賴賶 毓卮丕亍 丌丿賲 爻賲賷孬貙 賲丐爻爻 毓賱賲 丕賱丕賯鬲氐丕丿貙 丕賱爻鬲 賵丕賱丿鬲賴. 賵賲賳 賴賳丕 亘丿兀鬲 丕賱賰丕鬲亘丞 鬲賯丿賲 賮賰乇鬲賴丕.听

丕賱賮賰乇丞 丕賱兀爻丕爻賷丞 賱賱賰鬲丕亘 鬲賲丨賵乇鬲 丨賵賱 丿賵乇听 丕賱爻賷丿丕鬲 賮賷 丕賱丕賯鬲氐丕丿貙 丿賵乇賴丕 丕賱賲賴賲賱 丕賱睾賷乇 賲乇卅賷 賮賷 丕賱賲賳夭賱 賲賳 乇毓丕賷丞 毓丕胤賮賷丞 賵賲爻丐賵賱賷丕鬲 鬲乇亘賷丞 丕賱兀胤賮丕賱 賵丕賱丕毓鬲賳丕亍 亘賴賲 賵丕賱賲賴丕賲 丕賱賲賳夭賱賷丞 丕賱賲禺鬲賱賮丞 賰丕賱胤賴賵 賵丕賱鬲賳馗賷賮 賵賲丕 廿賱賶 匕賱賰鈥�.听

丨亘賷鬲 賮賰乇丞 兀賳 毓賲賱 丕賱賲乇兀丞 丿丕禺賱 丕賱賲賳夭賱 賷賰賲賱 丿丕卅乇丞 丕賱丕賯鬲氐丕丿 丕賱賱賷 賱賵賱丕賴丕 賰丕賳 丕賱丨丕賱 賴賷鬲賵賯賮 毓賳丿 丕賱鬲亘丕丿賱 丕賱鬲噩丕乇賷. 賰匕賱賰 賮賰乇丞 馗賱賲 丕賱賲乇兀丞 賵丕賱兀噩賵乇 丕賱賲鬲丿賳賷丞 兀丨賷丕賳丕 賵毓丿賲 丕賱丨氐賵賱 毓賱賶 丨賯賵賯賴丕 賰丕賲賱丞 賮賷 丕賱鬲乇賯賷丕鬲貙 賵賲卮賰賱丞 丕賱丕禺鬲賷丕乇 亘賷賳 賲爻丐賵賱賷丕鬲 丕賱亘賷鬲 賵丕賱毓賲賱 賵囟乇賵乇丞 賳噩丕丨賴丕 賮賷 丕賱丕鬲賳賷賳貙 賵鬲噩乇賷賲賴丕 毓賳丿 鬲禺賱賷賴丕 毓賳 丿賵乇 賲賳 丕賱丿賵乇賷賳

(賯丕毓丿丞 賮賷 丕賱亘賷鬲 賷毓賳賷 賲毓賳丿賰賷卮 胤賲賵丨貙 賵廿匕丕 丕卮鬲睾賱鬲 鬲亘賯賶 賲賴賲賱丞 賮賷 亘賷鬲賴丕 賵丕賱鬲賵賮賷賯 亘賷賳 丕賱丿賵乇賷賳 亘賷禺賱氐 毓賱賷賴丕 賳賮爻賷丕 賵噩爻賲丕賳賷丕)听


丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賮賰乇鬲賴 毓馗賷賲丞 賱賰賳 兀乇賶 兀賳 丕賱氐賷丕睾丞 賱賲 鬲賰賳 丕賱兀賮囟賱 賱兀賳 丕賱賰丕鬲亘丞 賰丕賳鬲 feminist 賲卮 卮禺氐 亘賷鬲賰賱賲 賮賷 丕賱丕賯鬲氐丕丿. 丨鬲賶 賲卮 毓丕乇賮丞 丕毓亘乇 毓賳賴丕 睾賷乇 亘廿賳 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賰丕賳 氐賷丕丨 卮賵賷丞馃槄

丕賱噩夭亍 丕賱禺丕氐 亘丕賱賳馗乇賷丕鬲 丕賱丕賯鬲氐丕丿賷丞 賵丕賱爻賵賯 賵鬲丨賱賷賱丕鬲賴 賰丕賳 賲賮賷丿 賮賷 亘毓囟 丕賱兀噩夭丕亍 賱賰賳 丕賱賰丕鬲亘丞 賵賴賷 亘鬲丨丕賵賱 丿丨囟 丕賱賳馗乇賷丕鬲 賰丕賳鬲 睾賷乇 賲賵賮賯丞 賮賷 乇兀賷賷 丨鬲賶 丕賱兀賲孬賱丞 丕賱賱賷 丕毓鬲賲丿鬲 毓賱賷賴丕 賰丕賳鬲 亘毓賷丿丞 毓賳 丕賱賲賵丕囟賷毓. 賮賷 丕賱丌禺乇 賱賲 鬲賯丿賲 丨賱賵賱 賰卮禺氐 賱賴 賵噩賴丞 賳馗乇 賵賲鬲囟乇乇 兀賵 亘賷鬲賰賱賲 亘賱爻丕賳 丨丕賱 丕賱賲鬲囟乇乇賷賳. 乇氐鬲 賰丕賲 "賷賳亘睾賷 兀賳.. " 賵乇丕 亘毓囟 賵卮賰乇丕賸 毓賱賶 賰丿賴.
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October 20, 2016
As an economist and a feminist, I really loved this novel. But, after the first couple of chapters where the significance of women's labor in the household is really underlined, the theoretical jargon concerning economic man simply bored me. I understood it, mostly because I'm studying economics, but the anecdotes and fast-paced chapters failed to really hit home any concrete ideas for me. I also took a few issues with the ending chapters where the author discusses how there's really only one sex. Men get to be human while women have to conform to gender stereotypes and identities, making them the sole sex--but while this book talks about how women's labor has been ignored for years, it manages to go right ahead and ignore stereotypes that MEN face on a day-to-day basis, too! Of course women have it worse--duh!!--but I wasn't as impressed with this analysis as I wanted to be.

Anyhow, recommended for anyone who wants to really understand feminist economics (at least the first couple of chapters are worth a read at your local bookstore for sure!).
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December 6, 2016
It seemed to me the book was actually a collection of newspaper columns. It is frustrating enough that an author posits a question as the purpose of a book and fail to answer it or deliver a coherent theory or argument on the question. But positing a question and leading the reader to expect an answer only to write at the last pages that the purpose of the book is not to answer the question is deceiving.
Actually there is no question to be answered, as the author concedes in the book that her main objection to economic theory, the exclusion of work performed in home by women, has already been addressed in economic theory albeit not satisfactorily to her. Matter of fact economics is not a science, I personally believe, at least not currently, however, it is ever evolving to refine its fundamentals with the the development of such theories and fields like behavioral economics.
The authors other main objection is that economics reduces human relations to emotionless transactions where everything even a marriage relationship can be modeled and managed by economic laws. I would say, why shouldn't it? Any science, even economics, should capture relationship dynamics just like Newton's third law of motion. Newton's law doesn't care about why you swung the bat against the lamp post it describes the action and its results. So does economics it does not care why you had to pay high price on a product it only describes the demand and supply relation.
The author keeps going on and on about how the economic man, the theoretical man used to model economic activities, fails to account for the way a woman thinks and performs her activities under social and cultural influences. But that is misleading, the economic man is a construct of the author and actually the economic man is a collective, an aggregate of all economic decisions and activities as they exist in an economy regardless of how these decisions and activities come about freely or under influence or coercion of society or culture. The author's squabbles with the economic man lay in politics and society not in economics. Again, economics is already accounting for women's activities though not fully yet.
The author does not offer a solution or argument or theory on how does she wants economics to account for the love and care a woman expends raising her family; the paradox is once you model this love and care into a transaction or relationship it immediately becomes a faceless dry action with a price tag on it. Exactly what the author berates in economics - taking the humanity out of human relationships and transactions.
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April 25, 2020
Skondensowana, wci膮gaj膮ca, przyst臋pna lektura, bardziej w charakterze manifestu ni偶 standardowej pracy naukowej. Kojarzy艂a mi si臋 bardzo z "Kobiety i w艂adza" Mary Beard. Szesna艣cie kr贸tkich rozdzia艂贸w, analiza prowadzona w przekrojowy spos贸b, od Maynarda Keynesa i Adamia Smitha, przez Szko艂臋 Chicagowsk膮, po wsp贸艂czesnych ekonomist贸w, od pierwszych przemian fordyzmy po krach z 2008 roku, z u偶yciem wielu kontekstach, od Freuda po pierwsze zdj臋cia p艂od贸w z lat 70. Pod wieloma wzgl臋dami to fascynuj膮ca lektura, dowodz膮ca wielkiej elokwencji autorki. Kielos przeprowadza krytyk臋 ekonomii liberalnej i neoliberalnej pod wzgl臋dem ich warto艣ci i modelowego typu jednostki, jaki produkuj膮, tytu艂owego "cz艂owieka ekonomicznego". Jej krytyka ma g艂臋boki humanistyczny (w znaczeniu nie dyscypliny akademickiej humanistyki, ale odnosz膮cy si臋 do cz艂owiecze艅stwa) i feministyczny charakter. Analizuje podzia艂 na produktywn膮 prac臋 rynkow膮 i (re)produktywn膮 prac臋 domow膮, konsekwencje tego偶, perspektywy, jakie to tworzy dla kwestii kobiecego upodmiotowienia. Rozprawia si臋 bezlito艣nie z mitami wolnego rynku, niewidzialnej r臋ki, konkurencyjno艣ci i racjonalno艣ci podmiotu ekonomicznego. Cz臋艣膰 jej wywodu jest ironiczna, w tym uj臋ciu, w jakim ironiczna by艂a przemowa Marka Antoniusza w "Juliusze Cezarze" i ten stylistyczny zabieg bardzo do mnie trafia艂. Przyklaskiwanie popisowo g艂upim pomys艂om - Dubaj, jako ca艂o艣膰, chocia偶by - a偶 same ujawni膮 bezmiar swojej g艂upoty to moja wstydliwa przyjemno艣膰 i obwiniam za to Internet. Generalnie uwa偶am, 偶e to pozycja, kt贸ra pozwala lepiej zorientowa膰 si臋 w 艣wiecie, w kt贸rym przysz艂o nam 偶y膰, w tym, jak wsp贸艂czesna ekonomia zmienia 艣wiat - i cz艂owieka - aby pasowa艂 do jej za艂o偶e艅, jak nas to krzywdzi (gospodarczo, obywatelsko, emocjonalnie) i jak ogranicza nasze cz艂owiecze艅stwo zgodnie z wymys艂ami bandy kr贸tkowzrocznych socjopat贸w z Chicago, kt贸rych majaki kto艣 przyj膮艂 za prawdy objawione. Gor膮co polecam.
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January 25, 2022
Pensaba que, en un libro que se subtitula "mujeres y econom铆a", se le dedicar铆a m谩s tiempo a hablar de las mujeres y econom铆a y no tanto a hablar sobre el hombre econ贸mico, al final tantos cap铆tulos sobre este tema se me han hecho algo repetitivos y aburridos.

Me ha parecido interesante sin embargo, la tesis que la autora plantea, la de que los cuidados, es decir, el trabajo asignado hist贸ricamente a las mujeres, es imprescindible para que todo el sistema capitalista no se venga abajo, y tambi茅n c贸mo el neoliberalismo hace que, como humanos, nuestras vidas se traduzcan en una serie de inversiones que modifican nuestro valor como personas.
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988 reviews254 followers
December 15, 2019
The concept behind this book begins with a quote from philosopher and economist Adam Smith: 鈥淚t is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest.鈥�

Author Katrine Marcal asks a simple question that became the book鈥檚 title: who cooked Adam Smith鈥檚 dinner? The answer is: his mother. He never married, and he lived with her all his life. She took care of his meals, so he was free to write. Yet she is completely absent from his description of the economic activity that gets dinner on the table. The merchants are there, but the work performed in the domestic sphere was simply taken for granted. Mrs. Smith鈥檚 hand was truly invisible.

It continues that way today. People staying home to care for their kids or elderly parents don鈥檛 count in the labor force. All the housework that must get performed in every home doesn鈥檛 count in the GNP. And we all know that it鈥檚 primarily women who do the bulk of this. If a mother has a career, it鈥檚 usually because she鈥檚 getting help from some other woman, either the kids鈥� grandmother or a paid caregiver.

Marcal goes so far as to argue that this failure to acknowledge 鈥渨omen鈥檚 work鈥� in the economy is not just a disparagement of women, but an attempt to deny of all the traits associated with femininity: selflessness, emotion, and dependence. Consider the picture of Adam Smith鈥檚 鈥渆conomic man.鈥� He is self-interested, rational, and independent. But humans are not really like that. As has been pointed out by behavioral economics, humans don鈥檛 always make rational decisions as to their self-interest. And on the positive side, people act altruistically all the time. Nobody but a psychopath would pursue his self-interest to the exclusion of everything else.

Her main point, however, is that nobody is truly independent. We鈥檙e born helpless, and we grow fragile with age. Whoever steps into the gap to take care of others should be acknowledged, not just with more money, but with more honor. Though Marcal does not point this out, it strikes me as no accident that the economies that provide more help toward people鈥檚 basic needs are disdained with the term 鈥渘anny state.鈥�

Just as the vision of 鈥渞ational economic man鈥� is false, it is a false dichotomy to expect care work to be so pure that it鈥檚 above compensation. She illustrates the example best with Florence Nightingale. The pioneer of nursing is imagined to have been saintly and nun-like, but in reality, she was a pragmatic advocate of better pay for nurses.

Marcal says she鈥檚 not calling for a revolution; she鈥檚 calling for a correction. She also points out that she鈥檚 not the only one. The Crash of 2008 proved to many people that the predominant economic view of the world was false. We can鈥檛 rely on the 鈥渋nvisible hand鈥� to make everything fair. Unbridled capitalism ruins economies. And so, to quote her directly, 鈥淓conomics should help us rise above fear and greed. It should not exploit those feelings.鈥�

So what is the answer? Recognize that 鈥渆conomic man鈥� does not exist. Men and women can act in their own self-interest while also attending to the needs of others. Women don鈥檛 need to 鈥渓ean in鈥� or 鈥渉ave it all.鈥� Rather, all humans need to acknowledge our mutual dependence on one another and not demonize people who need more. To quote her again, 鈥淎 society organized around the shared needs of human bodies would be a very different society from the one we know now. Hunger, cold, sickness, lack of healthcare, and lack of food would be central concerns.鈥�

Yeah, I know. That quote describes the nanny state. But isn鈥檛 it time we acknowledged what our nannies provide, just like Adam Smith should have acknowledged his Mom? A more 鈥渇eminized鈥� economy would be better for all of us.
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Author听2 books1,774 followers
March 11, 2017
Katrine Mar莽al realiza un recuento hist贸rico desde el ya conocido "hombre econ贸mico" de Adam Smith hasta las diversas teor铆as econ贸micas actuales que lo sustentan y que buscan que el hombre econ贸mico sea quien nos relacione como individuos. Todo esto mientras le brinda una mirada feminista, d谩ndole voz al trabajo que durante miles de a帽os ha realizado la mujer y que se le ha invizibilizado, de tal manera que hasta el d铆a de hoy no se ha incluido en la econom铆a actual.
Con una mirada cr铆tica brinda los argumentos para demostrar que no es el hombre econ贸mico la mejor forma de analizar al supuesto individuo y se necesitan otras maneras que entiendan a la persona y su manera de organizarse como sociedad.
Sencillo, claro y para principiantes como yo (feministas e interesados en la econom铆a).
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1,069 reviews284 followers
June 26, 2017
What an interesting and subversive book this was. The "women and economics" story is sort of the background and Mar莽al spends more time focusing on the myth of the individualistic, rational, "economic man." It's an overview of the history of economics that begins with Smith and the invisible hand, and discusses the legacies of classical and neoliberal economics in short incisive chapters. This was a translation from the Swedish, and after finding myself alarmed at the typos in the 3-page preface to American edition, I found Saskia Vogel's translation of the text itself remarkable for its idiomatic English, gentle sarcasm, and emphatic drollness (a tone I'll assume Mar莽al intended).
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890 reviews448 followers
December 1, 2020
Pasal buku ini menarik perhatian adalah sesimpel kata kunci "feminis" yang tersemat pada blurb di sampul belakang. Walaupun tidak suka-suka amat dengan ilmu ekonomi mengingat (1) langsung memilih jurusan IPA saat SMA dulu dan (2) kesulitan dalam membuat neraca ekonomi yang tidak pernah sama di kolom debet-kreditnya, aku memberanikan diri untuk baca buku ini.

Pandangan yang menarik bahkan bagi para awam ilmu ekonomi tentang konsepsi manusia ekonomi. Penulis mengilustrasikan manusia ekonomi tersebut sebagai seorang maskulin yang rasional, tapi pada saat yang sama mementingkan diri sendiri dan serakah. Manusia ekonomi perlu disokong oleh hal-hal yang dianggap pasif seperti kasih sayang dan hal-hal yang berhubungan dengan ego dalam diri--yang di sini dijelaskan bahwa itu mencirikan perempuan.

Aku dibenturkan keras-keras pada pemahaman tentang ilmu ekonomi serta pengaplikasiannya yang mengenyampingkan perempuan; dari pekerjaan perempuan yang tak perlu dibayar sampai seorang ibu di Arizona yang wawancara kerjanya malah membuat petaka.

Untungnya, penyampaian gagasan berbentuk narasi dalam buku ini mudah dipahami. Pembaca pun dikenalkan dengan para ekonom besar yang tentu saja, terutama, adalah Adam Smith yang mengonsep homo economicus yang ternyata keliru dan rancu bila ditilik lebih dalam dari kacamata paham feminisme.

Yang disayangkan dari buku ini adalah penelaahan yang tidak memberikan solusi praktis. Pembaca dibuat angguk-angguk paham dan setuju tentang manusia ekonomi yang maskulin lalu membiarkan mereka terombang-ambing dalam kenyataan menyakitkan tanpa memberi saran taktis bagaimana mengubah konsep manusia ekonomi tersebut.

Secara keseluruhan, buku ini memberikan perspektif yang baru dan mendobrak.
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389 reviews5 followers
March 24, 2017
I'm giving this 5 stars, not in the sense of "best book ever" but rather "everyone should read." I've never studied economics, but I'm familiar with the pretty much ubiquitous idea (in America et al) of the invisible hand of the market--if everyone acts in their own self-interest, it benefits the economy. But this idea doesn't take into account the vast amount of unpaid labour, usually done by women, that actually makes everything run. (E.g. The famous economist Adam Smith's mother cooked his dinner for her entire life.) The book presents critiques on historical and contemporary economic and social theories, but I found that the same thesis was presented several times without leading to "next steps" for economic theory and policy. So I'm left wanting to read more about feminist economics!
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723 reviews173 followers
July 16, 2016
This is an entertaining and thoroughly readable feminist take-down of economic theory, in particular the idea of "economic man". Marcal's writing is occasionally angry, often very funny and always accessible. On the cover of my edition, there is a quote by Caroline Criado-Perez: "I genuinely believe that if everyone read Katrine Marcal's new book, patriarchy would crumble..." I concur!

By the way, the answer to the question "who cooked Adam Smith's dinner?" is, you guessed it, his mother!
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2,245 reviews3,599 followers
January 23, 2020
I was SO excited to read this book and had such high hopes after hearing her on several podcasts and reading a few of her articles. The book is not necessarily about feminism and econ. It's more about neoliberalism. There are some gems in here and it is worth reading, but I really do want another book just on what it means to have left women about econ and what it means to measure labor a certain way and forget about unpaid work.
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September 6, 2020
...perempuan bisa sama nekatnya dalam mengambil risiko seperti laki-laki, tetapi hanya ketika mereka berada di tengah siklus menstruasi. (hlm. 5)


Dunia digerakkan oleh keegoisan. Seorang peramu bir tidak memikirkan supaya pelanggannya bahagia. Ia meramu bir yang enak supaya orang berbondong-bondong membelinya. Sementara itu, dunia perempuan tidak bisa digerakkan seegois itu. Seberapa mampukah ia membina hubungan, di situlah kualitas kerjanya dinilai. Terdengar mustahil, tapi begitulah perempuan. Ketika perempuan memasuki pasar tenaga kerja berbayar, di situlah gerbang pemisahan perempuan untuk melepaskan hubungannya dengan urusan keluarga. Ia harus egois. Totalitas bekerja demi upah layak. Hubungannya hanya semata-mata dinilai antara perempuan ini dengan si pemberi kerja. Work-life balance dinilai ketika ranah privat terpisah tajam dengan ranah publik. Kalau perempuan bisa secara dinamis berpindah-pindah, kenapa tidak pernah ada konsep untuk mengubahnya?

Ekonomi menjadi sesuatu yang bergerak di dalam semestanya sendiri. Semua orang menjadi manusia ekonomi. Manusia ekonomi adalah aparatus yang berinvestasi pada dirinya sendiri. Hidup manusia adalah bisnis dan modalnya, dalam hal ini adalah diri kita sendiri. Uang bukanlah sesuatu yang ditiadakan atau diciptakan. Uang hanya berpindah dari satu persepsi ke persepsi lainnya.

Feminisme bukan tentang perempuan ingin mendapatkan potongan kue yang lebih besar. Feminisme adalah tentang memanggang kue yang betul-betul baru (Gloria Steinem). Neoliberalisme jelas lebih berpihak pada perempuan karena ideologi tersebut memecahkan konflik antara kerja dan kapital semata-mata dipandang sebagai kapital keseluruhan tak peduli apapun gendernya, dan kapital tersebut menjadi serangkaian investasi yang harus diukur dengan nilai pasar. Tidak peduli gender, yang ada hanyalah investasi lebih baik atau paling buruk.


Buku ini saya rekomendasikan untuk para siapapun yang ingin tumbuh dengan rasa percaya diri. Ledekan-ledekan penulis terasa frontal. Buku ini dengan lantang menuliskan "Cuma perempuan yang punya gender. Laki-laki itu manusia. Hanya ada satu jenis kelamin. Satunya lagi variabel, refleksi, pelengkap." Sesuai realita, menyisakan pembacanya untuk memilih, apakah mau diam-diam mengakui atau justru denial?
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May 24, 2021
Dari buku ini, saya jadi menyadari betapa peran perempuan dalam beraktivitas masih tidak dianggap sebagai kegiatan ekonomi, contohnya saja seperti merawat anak, memasak, dan menyiapkan makanan untuk keluarga. Sedangkan, hanya para lelaki yang dianggap "bekerja" karena mereka bisa menghasilkan uang. Dari sini, bisa dibayangkan, kegiatan ekonomi hanya dinilai dari seberapa banyak uang yang dihasilkan dan keuntungan yang diraih.

Selain itu, seperti yang menjadi judul dari buku ini, Adam Smith bisa terus berkegiatan dan bahkan menulis buku The Wealth of Nations dan The Theory of Moral Sentiments berkat ibunya, Margaret Douglas, yang berperan secara tidak langsung (invisible hand) kepada kehidupannya. Ibunya yang menyiapkan makanan sehingga Smith bisa berpikir dan mendapatkan tenaga; dan ibunya juga yang mencuci baju dan melakukan aktivitas rumah tangga lainnya supaya ketika Smith berada di rumah, ia bisa merasakan kenyamanan. Namun, Smith tetap berpikir bahwa kegiatan yang dilakukan ibunya tersebut tidak berpengaruh terhadap kegiatan ekonomi secara umum. Dengan demikian, di buku ini, saya bisa mendapatkan pengetahuan baru mengenai sistem ekonomi yang dirasa hanya adil pada lelaki dan meremehkan kontribusi perempuan.
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March 13, 2016
A readable, witty look at the intersection of economics and feminism. I loved this and breezed through it -- a lot to chew on relating to women's work, economic mobility, and human psychology. Also a reminder than white dudes who did a lot of the groundwork for "thinking" and "philosophy" in the past and became legends were only allowed to do so because mom/wife did all of the other work. In Smith's case, he lived with mom, she fed him, she did the chores, and he only had to work. (Thoreau, if you didn't know, "went to the woods because he wished to live deliberately" but went home to mommy who did his laundry).

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June 4, 2017
I really wish the whole book was as coherent as the epilogue.
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324 reviews171 followers
December 29, 2016
Adam Smith said 'It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.' This book is based on an interesting and thought-provoking observation: Adam Smith lived with his mother for all of her life, and she cooked his dinner every day. The butcher, baker and brewer may all demand payment for their work, but the work done by Mrs Smith was done out of love, and she was never paid for it. The book explores the simple observation that huge amounts of work are done without payment, the work of cooking, cleaning, childcare, elderly care, social care. Without this work capitalism could hardly survive - it is only because someone else is taking care of their day to day provisions that workers are free to dedicate themselves to paid work.
However, having made this observation, the book repetitively meanders, approaching it from various angles but never really following it through to any strong conclusions, and never really addressing it with any rigorous attention to the numbers.
The pros, cons and consequences of wages for all the kinds of work that are currently unpaid are never really explored in this book. Certainly not to the extent of the radical feminists of the 70s who made this same observation and followed with a load of demands for wages for housework, wages for childcare or transhumanist revolution of reproductive work.
Likewise, the economic consequences of women giving up all their unpaid caring work are not really explored. Would the economy collapse if women all simply refused to raise the next generation unless they were paid for it? Or would it thrive from a massive influx of women, suddenly free to focus on careers the way married men can? There are some frightening or exhilarating futures possible here, but they're hardly even mentioned.
The general gist of the argument seems to be: 'Women do a lot of necessary but unpaid work. That's a bit unfair, isn't it?'
Or perhaps: 'Men may refuse to do anything without immediate personal gain, but women aren't so selfish.'
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January 16, 2021
携泻斜懈 屑邪屑邪 袗写邪屑邪 小屑褨褌邪 屑芯谐谢邪 (褨, 锌械褉褔芯褕械褉谐芯胁芯, 蟹薪邪谢邪), 褖芯 褋胁芯褞 写褍屑泻褍 屑芯卸薪邪 胁懈褋谢芯胁谢褞胁邪褌懈 褨 胁芯薪邪 屑邪褌懈屑械 胁锌懈谢懈胁, 褌芯 锌褉芯 "薪械胁懈写懈屑褨 褉褍泻懈" 褉懈薪泻褍 屑懈 斜 褖械 写芯胁谐芯 薪械 屑褨蟹泻褍胁邪谢懈 蟹 褌邪泻芯褞 褨薪褌械薪褋懈胁薪褨褋褌褞, 褟泻 蟹邪 芯褋褌邪薪薪褨 300 褉芯泻褨胁. 袗谢械 卸褨薪泻邪 褟泻 械泻芯薪芯屑褨褔薪懈泄 褋褍斜'褦泻褌 薪械 斜褉邪谢邪褋褜 写芯 褍胁邪谐懈 写芯 60-褌懈褏 褉芯泻褨胁 啸啸 褋褌芯谢褨褌褌褟 - 薪褨褔芯谐芯 薪械 锌褉芯写褍泻褍褦, 芯褌卸械 薪褨褟泻 薪械 褉邪褏褍褦褌褜褋褟. 校褋褨 褑褨 蟹胁械写械薪褨 褋褌邪褌懈褋褌懈泻懈, 械泻芯薪芯屑褨褔薪褨 褍褋锌褨褕薪芯褋褌褨, 斜褨褏械胁褨芯褉懈褋褌褋褜泻褨 褉芯蟹胁褨写泻懈 胁褨写薪芯褋懈谢懈褋褜 写芯 芯写薪芯谐芯 褌懈锌褍 谢褞写懈薪懈 - 褔芯谢芯胁褨泻邪 械泻芯薪芯屑褨褔薪芯谐芯. 孝械, 褖芯 屑褨谢褜泄芯薪邪屑 褔芯谢芯胁褨泻褨胁 谐芯褌褍胁邪谢懈 褋薪褨写邪薪泻懈, 芯斜褨写懈, 胁械褔械褉褨/胁懈褏芯胁褍胁邪谢懈 褋锌褨谢褜薪懈褏 写褨褌械泄 褨 褋谢褨写泻褍胁邪谢懈 蟹邪 写芯屑邪褕薪褜芯褞 邪褌屑芯褋褎械褉芯褞 胁懈薪芯褋懈谢芯褋褜 蟹邪 写褍卸泻懈, 邪谢械 "薪械胁懈写懈屑邪 褉褍泻邪" 斜械蟹 "薪械胁懈写懈屑芯谐芯 褋械褉褑褟" 薪械 蟹邪锌褉邪褑褞胁邪谢邪 斜. 笑褟 "写褉褍谐邪 械泻芯薪芯屑褨泻邪" "写褉褍谐芯褩 褋褌邪褌褨" 胁懈蟹薪邪褔邪谢邪 褏褨写 谢褞写懈薪懈 (褔懈褌邪泄 褔芯谢芯胁褨泻邪) 械泻芯薪芯屑褨褔薪芯谐芯.
袟褨 蟹屑褨薪芯褞 锌邪褉邪写懈谐屑懈, 蟹邪 褟泻芯褩 卸褨薪泻懈 褋褌邪谢懈 褉褨胁薪芯锌褉邪胁薪懈屑懈 褍褔邪褋薪懈泻邪屑懈 械泻芯薪芯屑褨褔薪芯谐芯 锌褉芯褑械褋褍, 械泻芯薪芯屑褨泻邪 褟泻 褌邪泻邪 薪械 蟹屑褨薪懈谢邪褋褜. 袦懈 褨 写芯褋褨 泻谢邪写械屑芯 械泻芯薪芯屑褨褔薪褍 谢芯谐褨泻褍 胁 芯褋薪芯胁褍 胁褋褨褏 胁褨写薪芯褋懈薪, 褔懈褌邪褦屑芯 斜械褋褌褋械谢械褉懈, 褟泻褨 胁褋械 (胁褨写 锌芯斜褍写芯胁懈 褋褌芯褋褍薪泻褨胁 写芯 胁褨写写胁褨写懈薪 谢褨泻邪褉褟) 芯锌懈褋褍褞褌褜 蟹 褌芯褔泻懈 蟹芯褉褍 褎褍薪泻褍褑褨芯薪褍胁邪薪薪褟 褉懈薪泻褍. 袪懈薪芯泻 写邪胁薪芯 胁懈泄褕芯胁 褨蟹-锌褨写 胁谢邪写懈 谢褞写械泄: 薪邪 卸芯写薪懈褏 斜褨褉卸邪褏, 褍 卸芯写薪懈褏 褌褉邪褋褌芯胁懈褏 褎芯薪写邪褏, 薪褨 薪邪 褟泻芯屑褍 袙芯谢谢-褋褌褉褨褌褨 薪械 屑芯卸褍褌褜 锌械褉械写斜邪褔懈褌懈, 褖芯 胁褨写斜褍写械褌褜褋褟 蟹 屑械褏邪薪褨蟹屑邪屑懈, 褟泻褨 谐谢芯斜邪谢褨蟹褍胁邪谢懈褋褜 写芯 褌邪泻芯褩 屑褨褉懈, 褖芯 褋邪屑褨 写懈泻褌褍褞褌褜 褍屑芯胁懈 泻褉懈蟹 褨 锌邪写褨薪褜. 袪懈薪芯泻 褋褌邪胁 袥械胁褨邪褎邪薪芯屑, 褟泻懈泄 械屑芯褑褨褟屑懈 褨 锌芯褔褍褌褌褟屑懈 褌懈褏 褋邪屑懈褏 谢褞写械泄, 谐褉邪褦 褍 褋胁芯褩 褨谐褉懈. 袗 蟹邪写邪褔邪 薪邪褑褨芯薪邪谢褜薪懈褏 写械褉卸邪胁, 写邪褌懈 褉懈薪泻褍 褌械, 褖芯 泄芯屑褍 锌芯褌褉褨斜薪械 - 写械褕械胁褍 褉芯斜芯褔褍 褋懈谢褍, 褋胁芯斜芯写褍 写褨泄, 褋械泻褋, 褉芯蟹胁邪谐懈 褨 锌芯褌褉褨斜薪褨 泻芯屑锌械薪褋邪褑褨褩. 笑械 胁褋械 - 褉懈薪泻褍 写邪褞褌褜 褌械, 褖芯 胁褨薪 褏芯褔械, 邪 胁褨薪 褖械 薪邪 锌械胁薪懈泄 褔邪褋 蟹邪褋锌芯泻芯褞褦褌褜褋褟 (褔褍写芯胁懈褋褜泻芯 薪邪谐芯写芯胁邪薪械 褨 蟹邪写芯斜褉械薪械 邪斜褋芯谢褞褌薪芯 薪械 褌芯褌芯卸薪械 写芯斜褉芯屑褍).
袗 褖芯 褌懈屑 褔邪褋芯屑 械泻芯薪芯屑褨褋褌懈? 袥褞写懈, 褟泻褨 褍屑芯胁薪芯 泻械褉褍褞褌褜 泄芯谐芯 邪锌械褌懈褌邪屑懈? 袙芯薪懈 褟泻芯褋褜 褋泻邪蟹邪谢懈: "袝泻芯薪芯屑褨泻邪 - 褑械 薪邪褍泻邪 锌褉芯 褋锌芯褋褨斜 泻芯薪褋械褉胁邪褑褨褩 谢褞斜芯胁褨". 袦懈 卸 芯斜屑褨薪褞褦屑芯褋褜 褌芯胁邪褉邪屑懈, 屑芯卸械屑芯 蟹邪 谐褉芯褕褨 泻褍锌懈褌懈 胁褋械 (褔懈 薪褨褔芯谐芯?), 屑懈 锌芯屑褨褖邪褦屑芯 谢褞斜芯胁 褍 锌褉械写屑械褌懈 褨 胁懈谐芯写懈, 褖芯 薪褨泻芯谢懈 薪械 写邪胁邪谢懈 褋胁芯斜芯写懈. 袦懈 褨 写芯褋褨 薪械 蟹薪邪褦屑芯 褋械斜械, 屑懈 褨 写芯褋褨 薪械 褏芯褔械屑芯 锌芯写懈胁懈褌懈褋褜 薪邪 褋械斜械.
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399 reviews372 followers
November 17, 2022
Deliciosamente ir贸nico, perturbadoramente ver铆dico.

Cuando hablamos de econom铆a y mujeres es probable que se nos venga a la cabeza el problema de la a煤n enorme (y siempre absurda) brecha salarial entre g茅neros; o quiz谩s pensemos sin dudarlo en la inexplicable ausencia de una remuneraci贸n adecuada o al menos de la cuantificaci贸n del indispensable trabajo de cuidado que realiza m谩s del 50% de la poblaci贸n, mujeres en su inmensa mayor铆a.

Pero esas dos problem谩ticas son solo la punta de un perturbador iceberg social. Un monstruo de car谩cter ideol贸gico al que llamamos econom铆a; una ciencia a caballo entre las matem谩ticas y las artes adivinatorias que goza de un extraordinario prestigio social, en parte, precisamente, porque se vende como una ciencia exacta sin serlo completamente; en parte, por otro lado, porque se ha convertido en el lenguaje en el que est谩n escritos los libros sagrados de la religi贸n del mercado.

Pero la econom铆a, con su incre铆ble prestigio social tiene un profundo defecto (el lado sumergido del iceberg): excluy贸 desde su concepci贸n misma a las mujeres y todo lo que ellas representan. Ha sido constru铆da y puesta en pr谩ctica pensando en un 煤nico g茅nero: el g茅nero del Homo economicus.

En este libro, la feminista, periodista, analista econ贸mica y pol铆tica, Katrine Mar莽al, nos lleva a un viaje de exploraci贸n de esa parte sumergida del iceberg de la econom铆a. Usando datos y ejemplos tomados de la vida real, citas a los textos fundacionales de la econom铆a, incluso par谩bolas y algunas citas literarias, pero a煤n mejor, una buena dosis de iron铆a capaz de amplificar el absurdo y poner en evidencia los defectos evidentes del pensamiento econ贸mico, Katrine va construyendo el perfil del Homo economicus.

Lo que aparece ante nuestros ojos a medida que avanza el libro es simplemente incre铆ble.

Todo empieza, nos cuenta Katrine, con la casi total ausencia de una menci贸n en las primeras teor铆as econ贸mica al trabajo de cuidado las mujeres; trabajo que permiti贸 que esas ideas surgieran en primer lugar (de all铆 el t铆tulo del libro). Se refiere la autora, por supuesto, al trabajo de madres y esposas que cuidaron de los hombres que, como Adam Smith, escribieron los primeros libros de econom铆a. Mujeres sin las cuales ninguna de esas ideas habr铆a visto la luz, o por lo menos no lo habr铆a hecho de la mano de esos hombres. Y lo que aplica en este caso a la econom铆a, agreg贸 yo, se podr铆a extender a la f铆sica, a la qu铆mica, a la ingenier铆as, a la biolog铆a, etc.; casos en los que tambi茅n podr铆amos preguntarnos qui茅n le hac铆a la cena a Isaac Newton, Antoine Lavoisier, Sadi Carnot o Charles Darwin.

El agravante con la econom铆a es que se precia de ser la ciencia sobre c贸mo funciona el mundo de los humanos ("la 茅tica nos dice c贸mo queremos que el mundo funcione, mientras la econom铆a nos dice c贸mo funciona realmente", nos recuerda con no poca iron铆a la autora). La econom铆a nos dice c贸mo se producen las cosas y se les asigna un valor y como esas cosas y ese valor fluye entre nosotros. Esta ciencia tan importante comenz贸 despreciando el trabajo de las mujeres, el trabajo del sexo invisible, del sexo alterno al "煤nico sexo" (este es el t铆tulo del libro en su lengua original - sueco).

Pero no todo se reduce por supuesto a pensar en la contribuci贸n olvidada de la mam谩 de Adam Smith y el trabajo de cuidado de millones de mujeres que apuntalaron el mundo moderno sin ser debidamente reconocidas.

A continuaci贸n, Katrine ahonda en muchos otros aspectos de las ciencias econ贸micas, aspectos en los que queda de relieve el hecho de que estamos ante una ciencia constru铆da a imagen y semejanza de los hombres. O por lo menos una ciencia que asume que todos sus actores somos im谩genes imperfectas de un tipo de individuo aparentemente asexuado, el Homo economicus, como lo llama Katrine. Un individuo idealizado que tiene casualmente y como apunta muy acertadamente su autora, todas las caracter铆sticas que identificamos actualmente con los hombres: es racional, competitivo, objetivo - no se deja llevar por emociones - busca su propio beneficio, es solitario, independiente, se gu铆a por el sentido com煤n, no tiene hormonas, no llora, no limpia, no lava, no cuida, no tiene cuerpo (隆!) etc. Un "hombre" en toda regla.

Los cap铆tulos se suceden uno tras otro con sugestivos t铆tulos: "En el que nos presentan al hombre econ贸mico y vemos lo tremendamente seductor que es", "En el que a帽adimos a las mujeres a la mezcla y agitamos", "En el que advertimos que los hombres tampoco son como el hombre econ贸mico", "En el que descubrimos que el protagonista del gran relato contempor谩neo tiene un 煤nico sexo". La mayor铆a comienzan con una historia, a veces una f谩bula o una par谩bola, que hace de introducci贸n perfecta para la argumentaci贸n mejor fundamentada que sigue.

Ning煤n tema parece quedarse por fuera: el trabajo de cuidado, la desigualdad salarial, la religi贸n del mercado, el 煤tero femenino como una nave espacial para transportar los futuros consumidores, la mujer como m谩quina reproductora de la econom铆a, la pobreza mundial - que es femenina en su inmensa mayor铆a, lo absurdo de un consumo ilimitado, de un crecimiento ilimitado, la econom铆a de las mujeres migrantes, la historia del desastroso neoliberalismo, el cuerpo en la econom铆a, las emociones en la econom铆a, etc.

Un buen criterio para saber si un libro es bueno es midiendo el grado en el que puede cambiarte. Aunque es temprano para saberlo, siento que el libro me ha cambiado. Leyendo a Katrine me identifique, como hombre privilegiado del patriarcado que soy (algo que descubr铆 tambi茅n leyendo a otras autoras), con muchas de las ideas de la econom铆a 谩cidamente criticadas por la autora; me sent铆 abiertamente imitando el modelo del Homo economicus o mejor me di cuenta que yo mismo act煤o y pienso muchas veces como la peor versi贸n de es individuo idealizado de la econom铆a.

Un aspecto particular en el que me ha hecho reflexionar este libro es en el tema de la dependencia. Siempre me he preciado de ser un individuo independiente y de c贸mo eso me hace "mejor" a muchos otros (hombres y mujeres). He despreciado abiertamente a personas que son por elecci贸n o por accidente muy dependientes de los dem谩s llam谩ndolos en momentos de rabia y a veces sin ella, "par谩sitos".

Leyendo a Katrine me doy cuenta claramente de mi error (tal vez no era necesario leer un libro, bastaba con escuchar a mi esposa, a mis hijos, a mis amigos): yo soy tan dependiente como todos ellos. Estoy aqu铆 escribiendo una rese帽a, pude leer tranquilo este libro, tuve dinero libre suficiente para comprarlo, mientras decenas de personas trabajan para que yo no me ocupar谩 de garantizar los recursos que necesito para hacerlo (agua, energ铆a, cuidado). Entre todas ellas esta mi esposa - qui茅n descubri贸 este libro en primer lugar y me lo presto - sin ella no lo habr铆a le铆do en primer lugar - y que adem谩s me preparo la cena mientras escrib铆a la rese帽a. Soy el Homo economicus de Katrine y no lo sab铆a.

驴Pero saberlo me har谩 mejor?. Tal vez no pero por algo se empieza. Quiz谩s en lo que me queda de vida no logre dejar de ser el Homo economicus en el que me he convertido; pero saberlo y hablar de ello puede hacer mejor a otros que est谩n comenzando (incluyendo mis hijos y estudiantes).

"驴Qui茅n le hac铆a la cena a Adam Smith?" es un buen libro de econom铆a en c贸digo femenino. Una cr铆tica bien informada a una ciencia muy respetada, que en momentos de una profunda crisis planetaria deber铆a reformarse radicalmente escuchando las voces de las mujeres. Un libro lleno de ideas novedosas y diferentes (esto es lo que encuentro m谩s atractivo de leer libros de feminismos) que de tomarse realmente en serio podr铆an cambiar el curso de la historia.

No hay excusa para leer ahora mismo este libro.
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228 reviews
February 5, 2021
"Yoksullar谋n谋n y眉zde 70'inin kad谋n oldu臒u, kad谋nlar谋n d眉艧眉k 眉cretlerle 莽al谋艧t谋r谋ld谋臒谋, 莽al谋艧ma ko艧ullar谋n谋n berbat oldu臒u ve 眉cretsiz i艧lerin neredeyse tamam谋n谋 yapt谋臒谋, ayn谋 zamanda bu 眉cretsiz i艧lerin b眉y眉mede bir anlam ifade etmedi臒inin d眉艧眉n眉ld眉臒眉 ya da ekonomik performans 枚l莽眉m眉nde kullan谋lan istatistiklere dahil edilmedi臒i bir d眉nyada cinsiyet fark eder."

Ufuk a莽谋c谋 ve okumas谋 莽ok keyifli bir kitap.
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21 reviews2 followers
June 1, 2021
2.5 estrellas

Never before have i been so offended by something I 100% agree with.


Me conflict煤a este libro.

Por una parte, su tesis principal es importante y, en mi opini贸n, correcta. El pensamiento econ贸mico siempre ignor贸 el rol de la mujer en la sociedad y la concepci贸n del hombre econ贸mico como categor铆a de an谩lisis indivisible, individualista y fundamental refleja este punto ciego machista. La pregunta que hace de t铆tulo de este ensayo lo ilustra muy bien.

Por otra parte, la obra tiene una necesidad de tratar de explicar toda falla en la teor铆a y los problemas econ贸micos y financieros contempor谩neos desde este punto (la crisis de 2008 y las precedentes, las guerras, la desigualdad de todo tipo, los problemas medioambientales, etc.), lo que la hace caer en contradicciones a raz贸n de su excesiva simpleza. El racismo, el colonialismo, la concentraci贸n del poder pol铆tico, son manos invisibles en sus postulados.

Ir贸nicamente, "la econom铆a" para Mar莽al es un hombre de paja, que cambia de significado a conveniencia: ya sea el concepto de hombre econ贸mico, o el neoliberalismo, los macroeconomistas keynesianos, los economistas de noticiero, los financieros, los modelos microecon贸micos... que son muy diferentes entre s铆. Ir贸nicamente tambi茅n, para se帽alar que la teor铆a econ贸mica es un inamovible monolito que no admite desviaciones de la norma cita casi exclusivamente el trabajo de otros economistas en el 谩mbito de la econom铆a conductual o de g茅nero, e incluso de la obra de economistas ortodoxos. A quien no cita, sorpresivamente, es a John Stuart Mill, un economista cl谩sico (casi contempor谩neo a Smith) cuyo trabajo incluy贸 prominentemente a las mujeres desde una perspectiva liberal.

Mentira, s铆 lo cita. En una nota al pie, se帽alando que 茅l fue el primero en usar la categor铆a homo economicus. Es una omisi贸n importante y, me parece, deliberada.

Deber铆a haber una lista de autores que escriben bestsellers y no han le铆do a Adam Smith. (En momentos pensaba que se deber铆a llamar: "驴Qui茅n le hizo la rese帽a a Adam Smith?"). Entiendo el uso de esta figura como una caricatura del pensamiento econ贸mico, los mismos economistas lo hacen. El problema es que esta es una caricatura de una caricatura.

Con todo, la lectura hizo eco conmigo en algunas ideas. La mercantilizaci贸n de nuestra existencia, el pensar en el cuerpo como punto de partida de nuestra relaci贸n con la sociedad, la inclusi贸n del trabajo de autoras que no conoc铆a. No creo recomendarlo, pero quiero leer m谩s y mejor al respecto.

P.D. El estilo es agotador. Tiene oraciones repetitivas y otras inconclusas por saltos de l贸gica que disfraza con cambios de ritmo sin ning煤n contenido. Cuando se le acaba el argumento, hace, muchas, cosas, as铆.
Profile Image for Nihan 脟umral谋gil.
82 reviews316 followers
February 23, 2025
Alt ba艧l谋臒a bakmay谋n sadece ekonomik birey olan kad谋n谋 de臒il geleneksel ekonomi teorilerinin nas谋l olu艧tu臒u ve neden 莽al谋艧mad谋臒谋n谋 莽ok basit dille anlat谋yor. Ekonomi tarihi ve teoremi hakk谋nda derinlikli bilgi sahibiyseniz s谋k谋l谋rs谋n谋z. Ama uzmanl谋臒谋n谋z bu de臒ilse bizim 眉lkede verilmeyen ekonomi tarihi e臒itiminin ba艧lang谋c谋 olarak konumlanabilecek bir kitap.
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Author听31 books1,819 followers
February 5, 2025
Una lectura bastante fuera de mi zona de confort. Pensaba que se centrar铆a m谩s en feminismo y menos en econom铆a, que es una materia que se me escapa bastante, pero aun as铆 me ha gustado bastante y me ha servido para aprender algunos conceptos interesantes.
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18 reviews1 follower
February 11, 2019
脼rj谩r og h谩lf. Hef ekkert kynnt m茅r femin铆ska hagfr忙冒i og 镁etta var g贸冒ur inngangur - fr谩b忙rir punktar inn 谩 milli um hvernig konur og 鈥渒venleg鈥� gildi eiga ekki erindi 铆 hagkerfi Vesturlanda. Hef冒i m谩tt vera styttri og hnitmi冒a冒ri.
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24 reviews3 followers
May 15, 2021
EXCELENTE! Queria que todo mundo lesse. Muito flu铆do, did谩tico, claro. A Economia do Cuidado 茅 um tema que PRECISA ocupar mais e mais espa莽os de escuta. 脡 urgente! Precisamos caminhar pra uma sociedade em que esse ponto seja conhecido, discutido e compreendido de forma a se tornar "O Lado BEM VIS脥VEL da economia". Para muitas de n贸s mulheres, ele j谩 茅. Precisamos que nossa voz seja amplificada!
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