Hardcover Love & Economics: Why the Laissez-Faire Family Doesn't Work Book

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ISBN: 1890626295

ISBN13: 9781890626297

Love and Economics: Why the Laissez-Faire Family Doesn't Work

By Jessica Ferracaene and Jessica Ferracane

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In Love and Economics: It Takes a Family to Raise a Village, economist Jennifer Roback Morse explains how the economy, which appears to a series of impersonal exchanges, is actually based upon love. Morse also shows how the political order--Hillary Clinton's "village"--depends upon the prior existence of loving families.Drawing on the experience of neglected orphans, Morse argues that mothers create the basic attachments that lay the groundwork for the development of conscience. Furthermore, only the family can socialize children to use their freedom responsibly. No social program can take the place of mothers and fathers working together as a team. Unfortunately, stay-at-home mothers are often denigrated by feminists and always squeezed by the economy. Love and Economics defends the economic value of motherhood and outlines a better economic way forward. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1890626295

ISBN13:9781890626297

Release Date:April 2001

Publisher:Spence Publishing Company

Length:273 Pages

Weight:1.43 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"

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