#15: Feminist economics, measuring 'women's work' and women's innovation with Katrine Marcal

Katrine Marçal is an award-winning author, journalist and keynote speaker. Her first book “Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner” has been translated into more than 20 languages and was hailed by Margaret Atwood as “a smart, funny, readable book on economics, money and women”.  It was named one of The Guardian’s Books of the Year in 2015. Katrine works for Dagens Nyheter, the largest broadsheet newspaper in Sweden and she was one of only a handful of European journalists to get an exclusive interview with Michelle Obama before the publication of the Former First Lady’s memoir Becoming in 2018. In her role as a financial journalist Katrine has interviewed many of the world’s most respected economic thinkers like Nouriel Roubini, Nassim Taleb and Yanis Varoufakis. Her book “Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored In An Economy Build For Men” became a bestseller in Sweden in 2020 and will be published in English in 2021. We cover the following in our conversation: What is feminist economics? How has modern economics failed us and what needs to change? How do we value women's work? Women's innovation and why it has been largely ignored? Why investing in women and the female market will drive innovation.