Meals Matter
A Radical Economics Through Gastronomy
1st Edition
Published on 5. May 2020
376 pages
978-0-231-55160-1 (ISBN)
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In Meals Matter, Michael Symons returns economics to its roots in the distribution of food and the labor required. Setting the table with vivid descriptions of conviviality, he offers a gastronomic rebuttal to the narrow worldview of mainstream economics.
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Symons Michael:
Michael Symons (P.h.D., Flinders University of South Australia) is a journalist, former restauranteur and independent scholar. He has written One Continuous Picnic: A History of Eating in Australia (Duck Press, 1982, Penguin, 1984) and The Pudding that Took a Thousand Cooks (Viking Australia, 1998). He has also published articles in Food & Foodways; Food, Culture and Society; and Journal of Historical Sociology.Michael Symons is the author of One Continuous Picnic: A Gastronomic History of Australia (anniversary edition, 2007) and A History of Cooks and Cooking (2000), among other works. He is also a former journalist and restaurateur.
Michael Symons (P.h.D., Flinders University of South Australia) is a journalist, former restauranteur and independent scholar. He has written One Continuous Picnic: A History of Eating in Australia (Duck Press, 1982, Penguin, 1984) and The Pudding that Took a Thousand Cooks (Viking Australia, 1998). He has also published articles in Food & Foodways; Food, Culture and Society; and Journal of Historical Sociology.Michael Symons is the author of One Continuous Picnic: A Gastronomic History of Australia (anniversary edition, 2007) and A History of Cooks and Cooking (2000), among other works. He is also a former journalist and restaurateur.
Content
Prologue: Meals Before Money
1. It's Not "the Economy, Stupid," but More Than Five of Them
Part I: Insatiable Greed vs. Satiable Appetite
2. In Greed They Trust
3. Brillat-Savarin's Quest for Table-Pleasure
Part II: 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 III: The Capture
8. The Dismal Science
9. Ludwig von Mises, Neoliberal Godfather
10. Rationalization and Corporate Purpose
11. The Creation of Homo Economicus
Part IV: 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
1. It's Not "the Economy, Stupid," but More Than Five of Them
Part I: Insatiable Greed vs. Satiable Appetite
2. In Greed They Trust
3. Brillat-Savarin's Quest for Table-Pleasure
Part II: 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 III: The Capture
8. The Dismal Science
9. Ludwig von Mises, Neoliberal Godfather
10. Rationalization and Corporate Purpose
11. The Creation of Homo Economicus
Part IV: 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
