Illustrates how stable and healthy families are culturally essential for free and virtuous societies, examines the positive and negative implications of market economies for the family and explains how the family can flourish in conditions that favor economic freedom. This course is the recommended prerequisite for Cohabitation and Family in Economic Development.
Recommended Reading:
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Roback Morse, Jennifer. Love and Economics: Why the Laissez-Faire Family Doesn't Work ,(Dallas: Spence Publishing, 2001.)
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Waite, Linda & Gallagher, Maggie.The Case for Marriage: Why Married People are Happier, Healthier and Better Off Financially (NY: Doubleday, 2000.)
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Farrell, Warren. Father and Child Reunion: How to Bring the Dads we Need to the Children We Love (NY: Putnam, 2001.)
