A Treatise on the Family.

First Edition of Gary Becker’s Classic Work A Treatise on the Family; Inscribed by Him To Fellow University of Chicago Colleague Sidney Davidson

A Treatise on the Family.

BECKER, Gary. S.

$2,500.00

Item Number: 3898

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981.

First edition of this landmark work. Octavo, original boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Sidney with best wishes Gary.” The recipient was colleague and fellow economist Sidney Davidson. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small chip to the front panel.

Treatise on the Family is truly a pathbreaking book which marries techniques and problems hitherto regarded as utterly incompatible--rigorous economic reasoning to understanding the family. The marriage is astoundingly productive. It is destined to affect the foundations of every science dealing with human behavior" (Milton Friedman).

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