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A Treatise on the Family
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Gary S. Becker
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English
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1991
About this book
Using the basic economic assumptions of maximizing behavior, stable preferences, and arid equilibria in explicit or implicit markets, Becker applies economic theory to the most sensitive and fateful personal decisions, such as choosing a spouse or having children.
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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
-- Debra Friedman Contemporary Sociology
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
-- 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
-- Warren C. Sanderson Science
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
-- Milton Friedman
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July 1, 2009
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9780674020665
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440
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9780674020665
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