Evolving households : (Record no. 73619)
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| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 8951010 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20220712204945.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 200313s2019 mau ob 001 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780262350853 |
| -- | electronic bk. |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| -- | electronic bk. |
| 082 04 - CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Call Number | 303.48/30973 |
| 100 1# - AUTHOR NAME | |
| Author | Greenwood, Jeremy, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Evolving households : |
| Sub Title | the imprint of technology on life / |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 1 PDF (xiv, 315 pages). |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Remark 2 | More working mothers -- The baby boom and baby bust -- The decline in marriage -- Social change -- Increased longevity and longer retirement -- Conclusion -- Mathematical appendix -- Bibliography. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The transformative effect of technological change on households and culture, seen from a macroeconomic perspective through simple economic models.In Evolving Households, Jeremy Greenwood argues that technological progress has had as significant an effect on households as it had on industry. Taking a macroeconomic perspective, Greenwood develops simple economic models to study such phenomena as the rise in married female labor force participation, changes in fertility rates, the decline in marriage, and increased longevity. These trends represent a dramatic transformation in everyday life, and they were made possible by advancements in technology. Greenwood also addresses how technological progress can cause social change.Greenwood shows, for example, how electricity and labor-saving appliances freed women from full-time household drudgery and enabled them to enter the labor market. He explains that fertility dropped when higher wages increased the opportunity cost of having children; he attributes the post-World War II baby boom to a combination of labor-saving household technology and advances in obstetrics and pediatrics. Marriage rates declined when single households became more economically feasible; people could be more discriminating in their choice of a mate. Technological progress also affects social and cultural norms. Innovation in contraception ushered in a sexual revolution. Labor-saving technological progress at home, together with mechanization in industry that led to an increase in the value of brain relative to brawn for jobs, fostered the advancement of women's rights in the workplace. Finally, Greenwood attributes increased longevity to advances in medical technology and rising living standards, and he examines healthcare spending, the development of new drugs, and the growing portion of life now spent in retirement. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| General subdivision | Economic aspects |
| -- | History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| General subdivision | History. |
| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=8951010 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | eBooks |
| 264 #1 - | |
| -- | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| -- | MIT Press, |
| -- | [2018] |
| 264 #2 - | |
| -- | [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : |
| -- | IEEE Xplore, |
| -- | [2019] |
| 336 ## - | |
| -- | text |
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| -- | electronic |
| -- | isbdmedia |
| 338 ## - | |
| -- | online resource |
| -- | rdacarrier |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Technological innovations |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Families |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 2 | |
| -- | United States |
| 651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 2 | |
| -- | United States. |
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