Agency, Gender and Economic Development in the World Economy 1850-2000: Testing the Sen Hypothesis (Gender and Well-Being) - Hardcover

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9780415791335: Agency, Gender and Economic Development in the World Economy 1850-2000: Testing the Sen Hypothesis (Gender and Well-Being)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415791332 ISBN 13: 9780415791335
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

How has ‘agency’ – or the ability to define and act upon one’s goals – contributed to global long-term economic development during the last 150 years? This book asserts that autonomous decision making, and female agency in particular, increases the potential of a society to generate economic growth and improve its institutions.

Inspired by Amartya Sen’s capabilities approach and looking at this in comparison to contemporary economic theory, the collection of chapters tackles the issue of agency from the micro level of household and family formation and asks how this applies to gender at regional and state level. It brings to the fore new empirical data from across the globe to test the links between family systems, female agency, human capital formation, political institutions and economic development and puts these into broader historical context.

It will appeal to scholars researching social policy, gender studies, economic history, development studies and philosophy, as well anyone with interests in the long-term societal development of the world economy and issues of global inequality.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jan Luiten van Zanden is Professor of Global Economic History at Utrecht University.

Auke Rijpma

is an Assistant Professor and Post Doctoral researcher in the Economic and Social History research group of Utrecht University.

Jan Kok

is Professor of Economic, Social and Demographic History at the Radboud University, Nijmegen.

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Verlag
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0415791332
ISBN 13 
9780415791335
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
196
Herausgeber
Van Zanden Jan Luiten, Rijpma Auke, Kok Jan
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Verantwortliche Person
Buchpark GmbH
gpsr@buchpark.de

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Brandenburg
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Deutschland

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