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Mind Map by Kori Mayfield, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Kori Mayfield
over 6 years ago
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Nature of Mainstream Economics
- Benevolent Patriarch
- Patriarch makes choices in the best interest of the family
- Allows families to be treated as individuals
- One person making rational decision taking into account personal needs of other family members
- assume this person will behave altruistically
- assume this person will behave altruistically
- Allows families to be treated as individuals
- Idea that women only work as a function of their husband's income
- legislation that allows for all men to earn a "family wage" will
keep women out of the work force beaus they can be taken
care of by breadwinning husbands
- legislation that allows for all men to earn a "family wage" will
keep women out of the work force beaus they can be taken
care of by breadwinning husbands
- Patriarch makes choices in the best interest of the family
- Woman of Leisure
- Women do not work
- duties they preform are for their families and therefor not valued in the marketplace
- idea that women have comparitive advantage in reproductive activity
- women should not be paid for their "natural" role in society
- women should not be paid for their "natural" role in society
- idea that women have comparitive advantage in reproductive activity
- duties they preform are for their families and therefor not valued in the marketplace
- Women do not work
- Free Choice
- Economic actors are independent and able
to make choices based on their own needs
and desires "limited only by 'constraints'"
- Falls apart when we look at
interdependent actors such as infants
or children
- Not really an issue when women get
"personal value" from caring for their children
- Not really an issue when women get
"personal value" from caring for their children
- Falls apart when we look at
interdependent actors such as infants
or children
- Economic actors are independent and able
to make choices based on their own needs
and desires "limited only by 'constraints'"
- Marketplace of Ideas
- Idea that best ideas will be incorporated because of their merit in a
competitive "market of ideas"
- By this assumption current ideas would be the best of the best
- Market is not fair to all ideas as it excludes the
ideas of those seen as unworthy or unconforming
to the ideas already entrenched
- Creates cycle of problems enforced by problematic starting points
- Creates cycle of problems enforced by problematic starting points
- Market is not fair to all ideas as it excludes the
ideas of those seen as unworthy or unconforming
to the ideas already entrenched
- By this assumption current ideas would be the best of the best
- Idea that best ideas will be incorporated because of their merit in a
competitive "market of ideas"
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