A review by wakenda
Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? A Story About Women and Economics by Katrine Marçal

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.