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.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge : Harvard University Press.
Sujets:
Families > Economic aspects.
Familles > Aspect économique.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Alternative Family.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Reference.
Families > Economic aspects
Gezin.
Economische aspecten.
Families
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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