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Hardcover Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?: A Story of Women and Economics Book

ISBN: 168177142X

ISBN13: 9781681771427

Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?: A Story of Women and Economics

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How do you get your dinner? That is the basic question of economics. When economist and philosopher Adam Smith proclaimed that all our actions were motivated by self-interest, he used the example of the baker and the butcher as he laid the foundations for 'economic man.' He argued that the baker and butcher didn't give bread and meat out of the goodness of their hearts. It's an ironic point of view coming from a bachelor who lived with his mother...

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