Valuing Children

Name: Valuing Children
Brand: Harvard University Press
SKU: 9780674047273
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Rethinking the Economics of the Family

Szerző: Nancy Folbre

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Harvard University Press

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Nancy Folbre challenges the conventional economist's assumption that parents have children for the s...

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Nancy Folbre

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2010

oldal

248

EAN

9780674047273

ISBN

0674047273

Enbook ID

04635451

Kiadó

Harvard University Press

Súly

394

Méretek

160 x 234 x 16

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Nancy Folbre challenges the conventional economist's assumption that parents have children for the same reason that they acquire pets - primarily for the pleasure of their company. Children become the workers and taxpayers of the next generation, and 'investments' in them offer a significant payback to other participants in the economy. Yet parents, especially mothers, pay most of the costs. The high price of childrearing pushes many families into poverty, often with adverse consequences for children themselves. Parents spend time as well as money on children. Yet most estimates of the 'cost' of children ignore the value of this time. Folbre provides a startlingly high but entirely credible estimate of the value of parental time per child by asking what it would cost to purchase a comparable substitute for it. She also emphasizes the need for better accounting of public expenditure on children over the life cycle and describes the need to rethink the very structure and logic of the welfare state. A new institutional structure could promote more cooperative, sustainable, and efficient commitments to the next generation.

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