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¿Quién le hacía la cena a Adam Smith? by Katrine Marçal

wakenda's review against another edition

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3.0

This book is a critique of the ways economics, and particularly the concept of economic man, has been constructed around male traits and attitudes, and the ways women have been excluded from economic theorizing, and treated as if their gender is inconsequential when they were finally included. The basic point is convincing, but it's established pretty clearly by chapter three and doesn't get a whole lot more complex from there. In part because of the short, choppy sentence style, it gets to feeling pretty repetitive pretty fast. I still enjoyed reading it, but I wish she'd had something more constructive about the way women do function economically, because it felt like a take down without a hint of a solution offered in its place. The premise is sound and I buy it, I just wish it had developed into something more interesting.

buloshnaya's review against another edition

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1.0

Ёрничание, передёргивание и ироничная попытка донести какие-то идеи про гендерное на венство, которая полностью провалена из-за отвратительной формы подачи
Не дочитала. Не рекомендую

tawnymlara's review against another edition

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4.0

Fascinating conversation on how women and “women’s work” AKA house work influence the economy.

rek216's review against another edition

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informative medium-paced

3.0

difilippo717's review against another edition

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fast-paced

5.0

mle667's review against another edition

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challenging dark informative fast-paced

4.0

homa99's review against another edition

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3.0

Wonderful central theme but loses momentum along the way. Still well worth it.

alexmmorgan's review against another edition

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challenging informative slow-paced

3.0

tashadhyani's review against another edition

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4.0

Ternyata merupakan terjemahan bahasa Indonesia dari bahasa Inggris, sehingga buku ini adalah produk tafsiran ketiga karena karya asli ditulis dalam bahasa Swedia. Entah karena faktor ini atau memang terjemahannya yang kurang bagus, kalimat terbaca sangat kaku di beberapa kesempatan -- meskipun tidak banyak, tetap terasa mengganggu karena makna menjadi susah dimengerti. Hanya karena perkara alih-bahasa inilah yang membuat buku ini tidak jadi bintang lima.

Buku ini membahas bagaimana peran perempuan dikecualikan dalam perekonomian dunia dan berusaha membuktikan sebab-akibatnya. Penulis berhasil membongkar teori dan konsep ekonomi serta peristiwa sejarah yang berkaitan dengan ekonomi menjadi topik yang bisa dicerna. Ini meskipun sering kali argumen yang disajikan terasa terlalu sederhana, tapi itu hanya karena buku ini ditujukan untuk pembaca umum sehingga penulisan secara bahasa dan uraian dikemas secara aksesibel.

mikelchartier's review against another edition

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4.0

Several reasons I can think of to criticize this. It suffers from thematic incoherence, the translation is a little sloppy, and it probably should have been published as more of a manifesto. But that criticism is largely ignorable, it's god damn fascinating throughout.

No doubt the patriarchy would stay firmly in place if everybody read it, but it's a fantastic perspective to have when introducing yourself to some of the more popular economic theories in the western world.