Spending time: the most valuable resource
Time is the ultimate scarce resource and thus quintessentially a topic for economics, the study of scarcity. Starting with the observation that time is increasingly valuable given competing demands as we have more things we can buy and do, Spending Time provides engaging insights into how people use their time and what determines their decisions about spending their time. -- Worldcat.
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- Full title :Spending time : the most valuable resource / Daniel S. Hamermesh.
Summary
Time is the ultimate scarce resource and thus quintessentially a topic for economics, the study of scarcity. Starting with the observation that time is increasingly valuable given competing demands as we have more things we can buy and do, Spending Time provides engaging insights into how people use their time and what determines their decisions about spending their time. -- Worldcat.
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- Publication Date:2019
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:New York, NY
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2019
The Physical Object
- Description:x, 220 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780190853839, 0190853832
- oclc:on1040245095
- LC Classification:HM656
- Dewey Decimal:650.1/1
Table of Contents
Introduction "You can't always get what you want" -- What we do when we're not working -- How much do we work? -- When do we work? -- Women and men -- Togetherness -- "The last of life, for which the first was made" -- The perennial issue and an old/new concern -- E pluribus unum? -- The rich are different from you and me -- Kvetching about time -- Do we have more time now? : will we get more time? -- What is to be done? -- Endnotes.
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