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Counting for Nothing - What Men Value and What Women Are Worth
Anbieter: Crappy Old Books, Barry, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. There are books that set out to explain the world, and then there are books that quietly point out that the world, as currently explained, might be missing rather a lot. Counting for Nothing ? What Men Value and What Women Are Worth (1988) by Marilyn Waring belongs firmly in the latter camp: a deceptively approachable work that takes the tidy columns of economic thought and asks, with admirable persistence, why so much of human life has been left out of the calculation. Waring, an economist with the unsettling habit of asking obvious questions, turns her attention to the ways in which national accounting systems measure value?only to discover that vast swathes of activity, particularly those traditionally carried out by women, have been politely ignored. Childcare, domestic labour, community work: all essential, all time-consuming, and all, apparently, worth precisely nothing when it comes to official figures. It?s the sort of revelation that is either deeply illuminating or mildly inconvenient, depending on how attached one is to the existing system. What follows is a clear, thoughtful, and occasionally wry exploration of how economies decide what counts, and what doesn?t. Waring doesn?t so much shout as persist, building a case that feels less like an argument and more like a gradual realisation. By the time you?ve finished, you may find yourself looking at everyday activities?cooking dinner, raising children, keeping things running?and wondering how they ever slipped beneath the radar of value in the first place. Published by Allen & Unwin in 1988, this is very much a book of its time, and also rather inconveniently of ours. The ideas have aged with a kind of quiet confidence, continuing to hover just to one side of mainstream thinking, waiting patiently for someone to take them seriously again. It is, in short, the sort of book that doesn?t date so much as linger. This particular copy is listed as Good , which in Crappy Old Books terms suggests a life that has included being opened, considered, and possibly used to win an argument or two. The cover may show some wear, the spine may have softened, and the pages may carry the faint signs of previous readers who paused, perhaps, at moments of recognition. Nothing dramatic?just the reassuring evidence that the book has been doing its job. Not quite a polemic, not quite a textbook, and certainly not content to sit quietly in the background, Counting for Nothing is the kind of book that subtly rearranges your assumptions while appearing to do nothing more than explain a few accounting principles. A thoughtful, quietly subversive addition to any shelf, and an excellent way to demonstrate that you are, at the very least, willing to question how value is measured?even if you still occasionally forget to do the washing up. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6354
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Counting for Nothing : What Men Value and What Women Are Worth
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Bridget Wiliams Books, Wellington, New Zealand, 1993
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Soft cover. Zustand: Good - Some Wear - Marks. Reprint. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 069070
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Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women Are Worth
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Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:9780868615714. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9993035
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