" Economic theories don’t help us understand either what our day-to-day choices mean for the whole and for society or what they’ll mean for the future that we will leave behind us one day, no matter how much we pretend that our actions are isolated impulses in a void. Economists should help us understand who we are by creating tools and methods for organizing a society with room for the entire human experience. Together with others, as part of the whole, the only unit through which we become intelligible. Intelligible to ourselves, to others and, for that matter, even to mathematical formulas. "
― Katrine Marçal , Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? A Story About Women and Economics