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Treatise on the Family

Gary Becker sees the 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. Gary Becker won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economics.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Harvard University Press.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Assortive mating in marriage markets
  • The demand for 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.