from the back cover: "Women's work fuels the economies of every country in the world. Housework, fieldwork, childcare -- all contribute to the financial value of households in New Zealand, Africa, America or Papua New Guinea. Yet no value is placed on this labour in the definitive system of national accounts used worldwide. Marilyn Waring analyses the concepts underlying economic thinking from a feminist perspective, and explores the wide-ranging implications of discounting the work of half the world's population."