Meals Matter : : A Radical Economics Through Gastronomy / / Michael Symons.
Until the early nineteenth century, political philosophy and economics were dining companions. Both took up fundamental questions of how we should feed one another. But with the rise of corporate capitalism, modern economics lost sight of its primary task and turned away from the complexities of rea...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 20 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Prologue: Meals Before Money
- 1 It’s Not “the Economy, Stupid,” but More Than Five of Them
- PART 1. INSATIABLE GREED VS. SATIABLE APPETITE
- 2 In Greed They Trust
- 3 Brillat- Savarin’s Quest for Table- Pleasure
- PART 2. LIBERAL ECONOMICS
- 4 Epicurus and the Pleasure of the Stomach
- 5 Cavendish, Hobbes, Locke, and Liberal Political Economy
- 6 The City Sacks Versailles
- 7 Making the Market
- PART 3. THE CAPTURE
- 8 The Dismal Science
- 9 Ludwig von Mises, Neoliberal Godfather
- 10 Rationalization and Corporate Purpose
- 11 The Creation of Homo Economicus
- PART 4. RESTORING ECONOMICS
- 12 Free the Market! (It’s Been Captured by Capitalism)
- 13 Value Families! (Economics Begins at Home)
- 14 Get Political! (Bring Back Banquets)
- Epilogue: “Eat, Drink, and Be Merry”
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary: List of Ingredients
- Notes
- References
- Index