3 ms·
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23206098-who-cooked-adam-smith-s-dinner https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23206098-who-cooked-adam... >When Adam Smith pr
by minikites 7y ago
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23206098-who-cooked-adam-smith-s-dinner https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23206098-who-cooked-adam...
>When Adam Smith proclaimed that all our actions were motivated by self-interest and the world turned because of financial gain he laid the foundations for 'economic man'. Selfish and cynical, 'economic man' has dominated our thinking ever since, the ugly rational heart of modern day capitalism. But every night Adam Smith's mother served him his dinner, not out of self-interest, but out of love.
>Even today, the unpaid work of mothering, caring, cleaning and cooking is not part of our economic models. All over the world, there are economists who believe that if women are paid less, then that's because their labour is worth less.
- zozbot234 7y ago> ...Adam Smith proclaimed that all our actions were motivated by self-interest and the world turned because of financial gain Funny that someone should write that, because Smith wrote a book called Theory of the Moral Sentiments in which he argued the exact opposite.