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Who cooked Adam Smith's dinner? A story about women and economics is a 2015 book by the award-winning writer and journalist Katrine Marçal that offers a critique of economics.[1][2][3][4] Marçal reveal historical neglect and underestimation of women's societal contributions and their lack of representation in the theories from within the field of economics.[5][6]
Marçal doesn't confine herself to only a feminist critique of economics. She challenges the very edifice of the construction of the capitalist economy which propels periodic spurts of financial crises. Her rebuke of the Chicago School of Economics' Nobel Laureate Gary Baker's controversial human development propositions and Lawrence Summers' internal memo on environmental pollution written as Chief Economist of the World Bank with their inherently racist, sexist and immoral undertones is particularly sharp to expose the moral bankruptcy of the key tenets of neoliberal economics." [...] "[...]the book is a pungent critique of economics[...]