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

Editat de Jan Luiten van Zanden, Auke Rijpma, Jan Kok
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 iun 2017
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415791335
ISBN-10: 0415791332
Pagini: 210
Ilustrații: 39
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Gender and Well-Being

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introduction (Jan Luiten Van Zanden)
Chapter 2. Women’s agency in historical family systems (Jan Kok)
Chapter 3. Measuring agency (Sarah Carmichael and Auke Rijpma)
Chapter 4. Quantity versus Quality: Household Structure, Number of Siblings, and Educational Attainment in the Long Nineteenth Century (Sarah Carmichael, Auke Rijpma and Lotte van der Vleuten)
Chapter 5. The best thermometer: A Long run perspective on Indian gender inequality in British ruled states (Lotte van der Vleuten, Sarah Carmichael, Selin Dilli)
Chapter 6. The Deep Causes of Economic Development: Family Systems and Female Agency (Selin Dilli)
Chapter 7. Conclusions (Sarah Carmichael and Jan Luiten Van Zanden)
Index

Notă biografică

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.

Descriere

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 tackle the issue of agency from the micro level of household and family formation and ask how this applies to gender at regional and state level.