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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 societies, to the increase and decrease of wealth from one generation to another. The consideration of the family from this perspective has profound theoretical and practical implications. For example, Becker's analysis of assortative mating can be used to study matching processes generally. Becker extends the powerful tools of economic analysis to problems once considered the province of the sociologist, the anthropologist, and the historian. The obligation of these scholars to take account of his work thus constitutes an important step in the unification of the social sciences. A Treatise on the Family will have an impact on public policy as well. Becker shows that social welfare programs have significant effects on the allocation of resources within families. For example, social security taxes tend to reduce the amount of resources children give to their aged parents. The implications of these findings are obvious and far-reaching. With the publication of this extraordinary book, the family moves to the forefront of the research agenda in the social sciences.

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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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Gary S. Becker was University Professor of Economics and Sociology at the University of Chicago. In 1992, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics.

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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press; Enlarged edition (October 15, 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780674906990
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Becker's Treatise on the Family

September 30, 2013

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If you are interested in the economics of the single-person and multi-person household, typically known as the family, this is your text. Unfortunately, it is not a book written for the lay audience. It tends to get quite technical, but there are chapters that noneconomists should be able to understand. The family in the U.S. as well as the world has and is undergoing significant changes. This book will help one understand how and why those changes are occurring.

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Kenneth Sundaresan

June 16, 2015

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Great Service! Looking forward to reading!

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September 1, 2011

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I thought I knew what I was getting when I bought this book. I knew of Gary Becker and his work, including his award of the Prize in Economic Sciences (known loosely now as the Economics Nobel). I suspected his mathematical approach would be too hard for me. But it wasn't really that. The maths can be followed if you put a bit of time in (though I got lost in some appendixes).

I was hoping to actually learn some useful techniques from his mathematical approach to sociological and anthropological analyses. It wasn't to be.

What stumped me was the economics. I will be dragged off to my incinerator never understanding concepts like marginal utility. There is some synaptic proscription going on in my brain that, like a union on strike, holds back at the barriers then bans any hope of my comprehension of such economic staples.

Never mind. I'm sure it's a good book for any economists who want to know a bit of family sociology from the individualist maximization prespective. Given that it's a treatise, and that he has a section on the evolution of the family, it is disappointingly Western in data and outlook. (The evolution is actually a potted 100 years or so of recent Western history.)

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