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Handbook on the Economics of Leisure
Edited by Samuel Cameron
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 the core issues, 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 and sleeping, work–life balance, dating, tourism, health and fitness, sport, video games, social networking, music festivals and sex. Contributions from further afield by Veblen, Sctivosky and Bourdieu also feature prominently.
Handbook
- Published in print:
- 30 Nov 2011
- ISBN:
- 9781848444041
- eISBN:
- 9780857930569
- Pages:
- 576
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- Handbook on the Economics of Leisure
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Overview of the Economics of Leisure
- Chapter 2: On Economics, Leisure and Much More
- Chapter 3: Towards a Bourdieusian Economics of Leisure
- Chapter 4: Leisure and Subjective Well-being
- Chapter 5: The Economics of Sleep and Boredom
- Chapter 6: Half Full or Half Empty: The Economics of Work–Life Balance
- Chapter 7: Working from Home: Leisure Gain or Leisure Loss?
- Chapter 8: Contradictions of Capitalism in Health and Fitness Leisure
- Chapter 9: Dating as Leisure
- Chapter 10: Home Improvements
- Chapter 11: Reconsidering the Silk Road: Tourism in the Context of Regionalism and Trade Patterns
- Chapter 12: Leisure Tribe-onomics
- Chapter 13: The Significance of Commercial Music Festivals
- Chapter 14: The Rise and Decline of Drive-in Cinemas in the United States
- Chapter 15: Entertainment and Economic Contributions of the Indian Hindi Movie Industry
- Chapter 16: Leisure Time, Cinema and the Structure of Household Entertainment Expenditure, 1890–1940
- Chapter 17: Long-run Trends and Factors in Attendance Patterns in Sport: Australian Football League, 1945–2009
- Chapter 18: The Changing Demands of Leisure Time: The Emergence of Twenty20 Cricket
- Chapter 19: The Economics of the Video-gaming Leisure Market
- Chapter 20: Competitive Forces in the US Recreational Vehicle Industry
- Chapter 21: Magazines
- Chapter 22: The Impact of New Technology on Leisure Networks
- Chapter 23: Girls Just Want to Have Fun? Internet Leisure and Women’s Empowerment in Jordan
- Chapter 24: Sexual Leisure Markets
- Index
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- Published in print:
- 30 Nov 2011
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Economics 2011
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- Handbook on the Economics of Leisure
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Overview of the Economics of Leisure
- Chapter 2: On Economics, Leisure and Much More
- Chapter 3: Towards a Bourdieusian Economics of Leisure
- Chapter 4: Leisure and Subjective Well-being
- Chapter 5: The Economics of Sleep and Boredom
- Chapter 6: Half Full or Half Empty: The Economics of Work–Life Balance
- Chapter 7: Working from Home: Leisure Gain or Leisure Loss?
- Chapter 8: Contradictions of Capitalism in Health and Fitness Leisure
- Chapter 9: Dating as Leisure
- Chapter 10: Home Improvements
- Chapter 11: Reconsidering the Silk Road: Tourism in the Context of Regionalism and Trade Patterns
- Chapter 12: Leisure Tribe-onomics
- Chapter 13: The Significance of Commercial Music Festivals
- Chapter 14: The Rise and Decline of Drive-in Cinemas in the United States
- Chapter 15: Entertainment and Economic Contributions of the Indian Hindi Movie Industry
- Chapter 16: Leisure Time, Cinema and the Structure of Household Entertainment Expenditure, 1890–1940
- Chapter 17: Long-run Trends and Factors in Attendance Patterns in Sport: Australian Football League, 1945–2009
- Chapter 18: The Changing Demands of Leisure Time: The Emergence of Twenty20 Cricket
- Chapter 19: The Economics of the Video-gaming Leisure Market
- Chapter 20: Competitive Forces in the US Recreational Vehicle Industry
- Chapter 21: Magazines
- Chapter 22: The Impact of New Technology on Leisure Networks
- Chapter 23: Girls Just Want to Have Fun? Internet Leisure and Women’s Empowerment in Jordan
- Chapter 24: Sexual Leisure Markets
- Index