Economics and the Family

A Social and Political History

Miriam Bankovsky (La Trobe University, Victoria)

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Cambridge University Press
05 June 2025

Economic theory & philosophy

Series: Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics

Most economists think family economics began in the 1960s when price theory was applied to family behaviour. Instead, this book focuses on enduring concerns with family poverty across the last two centuries. In nineteenth-century Britain and Europe, economists debated the effects of poverty relief and sought to improve family productivity. In the US, interwar household consumer economists studied how to rationalise family consumption, because factories were producing goods for low-income families. From the 1960s onwards, 'New' household economists attributed family poverty to inadequate human capital investment in predominantly non-white families. Even when feminist, development, and queer economists problematised gendered injustices, they recentred family poverty, targeting the 'pauperisation' of motherhood and the marginalisation of 'families we choose.' Economics and the Family does not simply reconstruct this alternate history, it also shows how economists in all these periods overlooked injustices which must be shouldered today.

By: Miriam Bankovsky (La Trobe University Victoria)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781009187008
ISBN 10: 1009187007
Series: Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics
Pages: 351
Publication Date: 05 June 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Miriam Bankovsky is Associate Professor in Politics at La Trobe University. Her research spans the disciplines of Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. She was an Australian Research Council DECRA fellow and is the author of Perfecting Justice (2012). Her research on economic envy received the Australasian Association of Philosophy's Annette Baier Prize.

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