Meals matter : a radical economics through gastronomy /

"In Gastronomics, Michael Symons provides an innovative history of the intersection of food history, philosophy and economics. Modern economic thought, Symons argues, is driven by a money-centric focus that benefits the interests of the 'corporate individual'-entities without finite a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Symons, Michael, 1945- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
Series:Arts and traditions of the table.
Subjects:
Food habits > Economic aspects.
Food habits > Social aspects.
Habitudes alimentaires > Aspect économique.
Habitudes alimentaires > Aspect social.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History.
COOKING / History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Meals Before Money
  • 1 It's Not "the Economy, Stupid," but More Than Five of Them
  • 2 In Greed They Trust
  • 3 Brillat- Savarin's Quest for Table- Pleasure
  • 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
  • 8 The Dismal Science
  • 9 Ludwig von Mises, Neoliberal Godfather
  • 10 Rationalization and Corporate Purpose
  • 11 The Creation of Homo Economicus
  • 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".

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