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"A Treatise On The Family"
Analytical Essay # 19993
"A Treatise On The Family"
A critical review of this work on the economics of marriage and family life.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages) |
1 source |
1993
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"Gary S. Becker. A Treatise on the Family. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981.The word economics comes from a Greek root meaning "household rules," or in modern terms household management. Only with the rise of Political Economy in the eighteenth century did the word acquire its present meaning of the study of exchange relations in the public sphere, the market. As more and more functions such as cooking, eating and child care have been moved out of the household and into the market, the role of the family in this public economy might seem to have declined. In fact, however, suggests Gary S. Becker in A Treatise on the Family, the family has an economic life that extends far beyond the production or consumption of material goods.
We tend to isolate family life from "economic" life, and ..."
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"A Treatise On The Family" (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 13, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-A-Treatise-On-The-Family/19993
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""A Treatise On The Family"" 15 January 2012. Web. 13 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-A-Treatise-On-The-Family/19993>
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