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Katrine Kielos is the author of two internationally acclaimed books on women and economics. Her first, Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? - published under her former name Katrine Marçal - has been translated into more than twenty languages. It was named one of The Guardian's books of the year, and was praised by Margaret Atwood as "a smart, funny and readable book on women, economics and money." Her second book, Mother of Invention, was shortlisted for Business Book of the Year in Germany, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction in the United States, selected as one of Waterstones' Best Political Books in the UK and one of Indigo's Top 10 Business Books in Canada.

Kielos is a macroeconomics columnist and financial journalist who moderates the Nobel Prize Economics Seminar - an official event of Nobel Week, in which she interviews that year's laureates in Economic Sciences. She serves as Chair of EFN's Council of Economists, an advisory body of leading economists and economic historians, and hosts Världsekonomin, EFN's flagship podcast on the global economy. She has been based in the United Kingdom since 2012.

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Men are natural providers. Prostitution is the oldest profession in the world. Women are more cautious than men.

From earliest childhood, women are taught certain ideas about money. These lessons - about love, security, ambition and risk - are so ubiquitous as to be invisible. They are in fairy tales, pop songs and love stories, and absorbed so early and so quietly that women no longer recognise them as economic at all.

But these lessons aren't true. They are myths, and their effect is a form of economic gaslighting, designed to make women doubt themselves.

Anchored in fairytales and myth, and written in a lively, accessible and narrative voice, NOT WORTH IT explodes these myths and shows women a new way to understand their relationship with money.