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Love & Economics

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‘When Betty Friedan launched the modern feminist movement with The Feminine Mystique, she called the frustration of the middle-class housewife, ‘the problem that has no name.’ Now we face a different and much deeper problem that has no name. Jennifer Roback Morse, a distinguished economist, calls it the ‘laissez-faire family.’ ‘Most Americans, whatever their politics, share an expansive libertarian view of personal freedom. In Love & Economics, Dr. Morse argues that this emphasis on personal freedom has produced the ‘laissez-faire family,’ in which adult self-fulfillment takes precedence over the demanding work of raising children. Yet basing family life on individual autonomy rather than self-giving love is a prescription for personal unhappiness, social degradation, and political tyranny. The freedom that we value so highly can be sustained only by vibrant families grounded in love. ‘Dr. Morse warns that libertarian economic and political principles, though beneficial when applied in the public sphere, undermine the family when they govern our personal lives.’ -From the Publisher