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Becker dazzles the reader...To challenge us collectively to think about what we could not yet explain was Gary Becker's 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" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This truly pathbreaking book marries techniques and problems hitherto regarded as utterly incompatible--rigorous 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
The most important book on the family to appear in many years. Becker's 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 )
Becker dazzles the reader...To challenge us collectively to think about what we could not yet explain was Gary Becker's 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 )
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Becker dazzles the reader...To challenge us collectively to think about what we could not yet explain was Gary Becker's 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" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
This truly pathbreaking book marries techniques and problems hitherto regarded as utterly incompatible--rigorous 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
The most important book on the family to appear in many years. Becker's 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 )
Becker dazzles the reader...To challenge us collectively to think about what we could not yet explain was Gary Becker's 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 )
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The family in the Western world has been radically altered-some claim almost destroyed-by events of the last three decades. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
endowed luck, market luck, envy income, marital output, married output, dynastic utility function, more effort intensive, male efficiency, equilibrium sorting, selfish beneficiary, positive sorting, altruistic parents, abler children, negative sorting, nonhuman capital, altruistic families, interaction between quantity, female earning power, nonmarket productivity, equilibrium income, altruism function, tth generation, market human capital, optimal sorting, gain from marriage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Mathematical Appendix, Bureau of the Census, Great Britain, Adam Smith, Department of Health, World War, Gregg Lewis, Nigel Tomes, The Evolution of the Family, Middle Ages, Soviet Union, Survey of Economic Opportunity, United Nations New!
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The family in the Western world has been radically altered-some claim almost destroyed-by events of the last three decades. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
endowed luck, market luck, envy income, marital output, married output, dynastic utility function, more effort intensive, male efficiency, equilibrium sorting, selfish beneficiary, positive sorting, altruistic parents, abler children, negative sorting, nonhuman capital, altruistic families, interaction between quantity, female earning power, nonmarket productivity, equilibrium income, altruism function, tth generation, market human capital, optimal sorting, gain from marriage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Mathematical Appendix, Bureau of the Census, Great Britain, Adam Smith, Department of Health, World War, Gregg Lewis, Nigel Tomes, The Evolution of the Family, Middle Ages, Soviet Union, Survey of Economic Opportunity, United Nations New!
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- Studies in Labor Markets (National Bureau of Economic Research Universities-National Bureau Conference Ser) by Sherwin Rosen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Law and Economics (International Library of Critical Writings in Economics 3 vol. set by Richard A. Posner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Economic Analysis of Law by Richard A. Posner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Forsyte Saga (Oxford World's Classics) by John Galsworthy in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- American Occupational Structure by Peter M. Blau on page 239, and Back Matter
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- Marriage and the Economy: Theory and Evidence from Advanced Industrial Societies by Shoshana A. Grossbard-Shechtman on 10 pages
- Family, Household and Work (Population Economics) by Klaus F. Zimmermann on 4 pages
- The Limits of Rationality by Karen Schweers Cook on page 48, page 188, and Back Matter
- Women, Culture, and Development: A Study of Human Capabilities (Wider Studies in Development Economics) by Martha Nussbaum in Front Matter, page 271, and page 363
- Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life by Martha C. Nussbaum in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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