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...
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 yea...
This contributed volume applies cliometric methods to the study of family and households in order to derive global patterns and determine their impact on economic development.
This contributed volume applies cliometric methods to the study of family and households in order to derive global patterns and determine their impact...
