Treatise on the family / Gary S. Becker.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1981.Description: xii, 288 p. : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: - 0674906969
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| 306.85 Ac182 Psychodynamics of family life | 306.85 An618 Family | 306.85 B214 Method of classifying family structures | 306.85 B395 Treatise on the family / | 306.85 B434 Modern introduction to the family | 306.85 B496 War over the family | 306.85 B497 Human family systems |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Single-Person households--
2. Division of labor in households and families--
3. Polygamy and monogamy in marriage markets--
4. Assortative mating in marriage markets--
5. The demand for children--
6. Family background and the opportunities of childrer--
7. Inequality and intergenerational mobility--
8. Altruism in the family--
9. Families in nonhuman species--
10. Imperfect information, marriage, and divorce--
11. The evolution of the family--
Bibliography--
Index.
This book is contains an economic approach to the family. The title does not refer to economic aspects of the family. This volume uses the assumptions of maximizing behavior, stable preferences, and equilibrium in implicit or explicit markets to provide a systematic analysis of the family.
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