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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- List of Tables and Figures -- 1 The Expansion and Reorientation of Economics -- Part I. Comparing Research Methods -- 2 Comparing the Methodologies Used by Statisticians and Economists for Research and Modeling -- 3 Modeling Economic Behavior with System Dynamics: Theory and Practice -- Part II. Comparing Ideas on Economic Development -- 4 Imperialism and Competition in Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, and Economics: A Perspective From Development Economics

This paper describes Gary Becker's theoretical models of marriage. At the micro-level, these are all rational choice models. At the market level, Becker offers two major types of models: partial equilibrium models based on Price Theory as taught by Marshall and Friedman and optimal sorting models based on optimal assignment models. The paper examines some of the possible intellectual influences on Becker's theory of marriage, compares Becker's research on marriage with that of some scholars interested in intra-marriage distribution, and documents that Becker's students at Chicago were more interested in Becker's Friedmanian models of marriage than in his optimal assignment models.

Marriage and the Economy explores how marriage influences the monetized economy as well as the household economy. Marriage institutions are to the household economy what business institutions are to the monetized economy, and marital status is clearly related to the household economy. Marriage also influences the economy as conventionally measured via its impact on labor supply, workers' productivity, savings, consumption, and government programs such as welfare programs and social security. The macro-economic analyses presented here are based on the micro-economic foundations of cost/benefit analysis, game theory, and market analysis. Micro-economic analysis of marriage, divorce, and behavior within marriages are investigated by a number of specialists in various areas of economics. Western values and laws have been very successful at transforming the way the world does business, but its success at maintaining individual commitments to family values is less impressive

Discusses issues such as democracy, institutions, corruption, individualism, collectivism, poverty, political participation by women, and ethnic polarization; some focus on South Asia, especially India; 7 articles.