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Why Gender Matters in Economics
Mukesh Eswaran
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Description for Why Gender Matters in Economics
Hardback. Num Pages: 408 pages, 39 line illus. 12 tables. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 260 x 178 x 33. Weight in Grams: 898.
Gender matters in economics--for even with today's technology, fertility choices, market opportunities, and improved social norms, economic outcomes for women remain markedly worse than for men. Drawing on insights from feminism, postmodernism, psychology, evolutionary biology, Marxism, and politics, this textbook provides a rigorous economic look at issues confronting women throughout the world--including nonmarket scenarios, such as marriage, family, fertility choice, and bargaining within households, as well as market areas, like those pertaining to labor and credit markets and globalization. Mukesh Eswaran examines how women's behavioral responses in economic situations and their bargaining power within the household differ from those ... Read more
Gender matters in economics--for even with today's technology, fertility choices, market opportunities, and improved social norms, economic outcomes for women remain markedly worse than for men. Drawing on insights from feminism, postmodernism, psychology, evolutionary biology, Marxism, and politics, this textbook provides a rigorous economic look at issues confronting women throughout the world--including nonmarket scenarios, such as marriage, family, fertility choice, and bargaining within households, as well as market areas, like those pertaining to labor and credit markets and globalization. Mukesh Eswaran examines how women's behavioral responses in economic situations and their bargaining power within the household differ from those ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
904g
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691121734
SKU
V9780691121734
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About Mukesh Eswaran
Mukesh Eswaran is a professor in the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia.
Reviews for Why Gender Matters in Economics
Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award in Textbook/Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015 Providing an accessible textbook-style survey of this emerging field, Mukesh Eswaran's Why Gender Matters in Economics plugs a gaping hole in the discipline. Drawing on insights not only from feminism but also from evolutionary biology, anthropology, psychology, politics ... Read more