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Handbook on the economics of leisure / edited by Samuel Cameron.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leisure--Economic aspects.
- Leisure.
- Leisure--Research.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (576 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This interdisciplinary Handbook combines both mainstream and heterodox economics to assess the nature, scope and importance of leisure activity. Surprisingly, the field of leisure economics is not, thus far, a particularly integrated or coherent one. In this Handbook a wide ranging body of international scholars get to grips with this issue, taking in the traditional income/leisure choice model of textbook microeconomics and Becker's allocation of time model along the way. They expertly apply economics to some usually neglected topics, such as boredom, sleeping and social networking which enco
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Economic dimensions of leisure
- pt. 2. Work/leisure balance
- pt. 3. People and places as leisure
- pt. 4. Spectating and events
- pt. 5. Diversions and perversions.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-45786-5
- 9786613457868
- 0-85793-056-7
- OCLC:
- 763159357
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