Meals matter : a radical economics through gastronomy

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Meals matter : a radical economics through gastronomy

Michael Symons

(Arts and traditions of the table : perspectives on culinary history)

Columbia University Press, c2020

  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-338) and index

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内容説明

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 real people's sustenance in favor of the single-minded pursuit of money. 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. Engaging with a wide variety of thinkers-including Epicurus, Enlightenment philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, the gastronomer Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, and economic theorists from Francois Quesnay and Adam Smith through the neoliberals-Symons traces how we went astray and how we can find our way back to a more caring, sustainable way of life. He finds hope for shared "table pleasure" in institutions like community gardens, street markets, and banquets and in eating fresh, local, and "slow" food. An innovative, historically based argument at the intersection of food history and social thought, Meals Matter challenges us to reject the economics of greed in favor of a community-based economics of sharing and gastronomic enjoyment.

目次

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

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