Careful Economics

Integrating Caring Activities and Economic Science

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

Av Maren A. Jochimsen

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The caring services performed for dependent persons by professionals, family members, and friends are crucial for the functioning of the economy. Yet economists' notions of caring, its basic elements, and structural characteristics remain fragmentary. In this timely study, Maren A. Jochimsen presents an innovative analysis of caring, systematically integrating existing approaches and proposing a new concept for caring in economic theory. The author identifies the three components that make up a caring situation: motivation, reflecting the need and the responsibility to care; work, the hands-on caring activity; and resources, the material/financial basis and time to sustain a caring relationship. Complemented by a detailed analysis of hitherto neglected asymmetries in caring and their impact on economic theory, Jochimsen's concept lays bare the structures of care, defining central categories for its analysis and locating major coordinates for its social and economic organization.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2010-12-06
Mått155 x 235 x 9 mm
Vikt248 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor134
FörlagSpringer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN9781441953599

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Sociologi inom Samhalle och politik
Nationalekonomi inom Ekonomi och ledarskap
Socialt arbete och välfärd inom Samhalle och politik
Ekonomisk politik inom Ekonomi och ledarskap

Maren A. Jochimsen is an economist holding a doctorate from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, where she subsequently worked as researcher. Further affiliations have included the University of Cambridge, Harvard University, and the University of Amsterdam. She is co-founder of the Network Caring Economy and founding member of the International Association for Feminist Economics Europe. She has published on ecological economics, institutional economics, and care and economics. Maren A. Jochimsen is currently employed at the Guarantee Bank for Social Economy (Bürgschaftsbank f

1 Aim and scope of the work.- 2 The analytical frame of reference.- 3 Caring as the result of preferential choices.- 4 Caring as the result of other-regarding choices.- 5 Caring as the result of a caring motivation.- 6 Caring conceptualized as the result of an effective caring situation.- 7 Asymmetries and dependencies in caring situations as central categories of analysis.- 8 Guidelines for the analysis of caring situations in economics.- References.