Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family by Nancy Folbre

Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family

Nancy Folbre

235 pages paperback 2008

2 editions

economics gender informative reflective medium-paced
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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, a...

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