Origins of Increasing Returns
Origins of Increasing Returns

Author: Theodore W. Schultz

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 1993-12-08

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1557863199

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ORIGINS OF INCREASING RETURNS Nobel Laureate Theodore W.Schultz has made highly important contributions to the fields of agriculture and natural resource economics, and to human capital theory. This is the second of two volumes which encompass and combine the passions and interests of this eminent economist. Origins of Increasing Returns is mainly devoted to investments in specialized forms of capital, consisting in large part of human capital that produce increasing rates. The resulting tensions between politics and economics are critically examined.

The Return to Increasing Returns
The Return to Increasing Returns

Author: James M. Buchanan

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780472104321

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Makes available important articles on increasing returns as related to the size of the economy

Economics of the Family
Economics of the Family

Author: Martin Browning

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-06-05

Total Pages: 511

ISBN-13: 1107728924

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The family is a complex decision unit in which partners with potentially different objectives make consumption, work and fertility decisions. Couples marry and divorce partly based on their ability to coordinate these activities, which in turn depends on how well they are matched. This book provides a comprehensive, modern and self-contained account of the research in the growing area of family economics. The first half of the book develops several alternative models of family decision making. Particular attention is paid to the collective model and its testable implications. The second half discusses household formation and dissolution and who marries whom. Matching models with and without frictions are analyzed and the important role of within-family transfers is explained. The implications for marriage, divorce and fertility are discussed. The book is intended for graduate students in economics and for researchers in other fields interested in the economic approach to the family.

Changing Times
Changing Times

Author: Jonathan Gershuny

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780199261895

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This volume examines the newly emerging political economy of time, in the light of new estimates of how time is actually spent, and of how this has changed, in the development of the world.

Family Time
Family Time

Author: Michael Bittman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-02-26

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 113438937X

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The time we have to care for one another, especially for our children and our elderly, is more precious to us than anything else in the world. Yet we have more experience accounting for money than we do for time. In this volume, leading experts in analysis of time use from across the globe explore the interface between time use and family pol

Specialization and Economic Organization
Specialization and Economic Organization

Author: X. Yang

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2015-09-15

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 1483296822

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As the subtitle indicates, this book presents a new classical microeconomic framework. It develops a new unifying analytical framework that covers topics concerning international trade, development economics, growth theory, transaction costs economics, comparative economics, management economics, urban economics, industrial organization, and macroeconomics. The new classical microeconomic framework is used to bring the analysis of economies of specialization, the division of labor, and the structure of economic organization into the central place of economics.