Treatise on the Family Enlarged Edition

Name: Treatise on the Family Enlarged Edition
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ISBN: 9780674906990

ISBN-10: 0674906993

ISBN-13: 9780674906990

Edition: 2nd 1991 (Enlarged)

Authors: Gary S. Becker

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Imagine each family as a kind of little factory--a 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 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…

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List price: $52.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/15/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.93" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English

Gary S. Becker (1930-2014) was University Professor at the University of Chicago with a joint appointment in both the economics and sociology departments. He was the author of many books, including Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis and The Economics of Discrimination. He collaborated with Richard Posner on the Becker-Posner Blog, which formed the basis for their book Uncommon Sense: Economic Insights, from Marriage to Terrorism. Becker was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1992 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007.



Preface to the Enlarged Edition


Introduction



Single-Person Households



Division of Labor in Households and Families Supplement: Human Capital, Effort, and the Sexual Division of Labor



Polygamy and Monogamy in Marriage Markets



Assortative Mating in Marriage Markets



The Demand for Children Supplement: A Reformulation of the Economic Theory of Fertility



Family Background and the Opportunities of Children



Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility Supplement: Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families



Altruism in the Family



Families in Nonhuman Species



Imperfect Information, Marriage, and Divorce



The Evolution of the Family Supplement: The Family and the State


Bibliography


Index