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"The great sin of economics is thinking that value can be reduced to a number." "Apparently, the work they did did not generate significant value, which surprised me: they had saved my life. I started to wonder how value was determined in society. There was only one place to turn: economic science," Holten recounts. #EconomíaDeCuidados #Feminismo #IgualdadDeGénero (translated)

Emma Holten, a consultant and expert on gender, argues in her book 'Deficit' that the great sin of economics is reducing value to numbers, asserting that care and well-being are fundamental to society and must be valued correctly, thus challenging the traditional notions that perpetuate machismo in economic thought. #EconomíaDeCuidados #Feminismo #IgualdadDeGénero (translated)