A Treatise on the Family (inbunden)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
304
Utgivningsdatum
1993-10-01
Upplaga
2 Enlarged edition
Förlag
Harvard University Press
Illustrationer
3 line illustrations, 4 tables
Dimensioner
240 x 155 x 35 mm
Vikt
610 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780674906990

A Treatise on the Family

Enlarged Edition

av Gary S Becker
Häftad,  Engelska, 1993-10-01
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Imagine each family as a kind of little factorya multiperson unit producing meals, health, skills, children, and self-esteem from market goods and the time, skills, and knowledge of its members. This is only one of the remarkable concepts explored by Gary S. Becker in his landmark work on the family. Becker applies economic theory to the most sensitive and fateful personal decisions, such as choosing a spouse or having children. He uses the basic economic assumptions of maximizing behavior, stable preferences, arid equilibria in explicit or implicit markets to analyze the allocation of time to child care as well as to careers, to marriage and divorce in polygynous as well as monogamous societies, to the increase and decrease of wealth from one generation to another. The consideration of the family from this perspective has profound theoretical and practical implications. For example, Beckers analysis of assortative mating can be used to study matching processes generally. Becker extends the powerful tools of economic analysis to problems once considered the province of the sociologist, the anthropologist, and the historian. The obligation of these scholars to take account of his work thus constitutes an important step in the unification of the social sciences. A Treatise on the Family will have an impact on public policy as well. Becker shows that social welfare programs have significant effects on the allocation of resources within families. For example, social security taxes tend to reduce the amount of resources children give to their aged parents. The implications of these findings are obvious and far-reaching. With the publication of this extraordinary book, the family moves to the forefront of the research agenda in the social sciences.
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Becker dazzles the reader To challenge us collectively to think about what we could not yet explain was Gary Beckers gift to us in the original edition of A Treatise on the Family. The new edition is a reminder that we still have far to go. -- Debra Friedman * Contemporary Sociology * The most important book on the family to appear in many years. Beckers stark economic conception of action cuts through the romantic mist that so often blinds social scientists to the hard choices faced by families and their members. -- Michael T. Hannan * Journal of Economic Literature * Destined to have a significant impact on a number of different disciplines, including economics, sociology, psychology, anthropology, history, demography, epidemiology, and biology. -- Warren C. Sanderson * Science * This truly pathbreaking book marries techniques and problems hitherto regarded as utterly incompatiblerigorous economic reasoning to understanding the family. The marriage is astoundingly productive. It is destined to affect the foundations of every science dealing with human behavior. -- Milton Friedman

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Gary S. Becker was University Professor of Economics and Sociology at the University of Chicago. In 1992, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface to the Enlarged Edition Introduction 1. Single-Person Households 2. Division of Labor in Households and Families Supplement: Human Capital, Effort, and the Sexual Division of Labor 3. Polygamy and Monogamy in Marriage Markets 4. Assortative Mating in Marriage Markets 5. The Demand for Children Supplement: A Reformulation of the Economic Theory of Fertility 6. Family Background and the Opportunities of Children 7. Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility Supplement: Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families 8. Altruism in the Family 9. Families in Nonhuman Species 10. Imperfect Information, Marriage, and Divorce 11. The Evolution of the Family Supplement: The Family and the State Bibliography Index

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