SPENDING TIME C

Time is the ultimate scarce resource and thus quintessentially a topic for economics, the study of scarcity. Starting with the observation that time is increasingly valuable given competing demands as we have more things we can buy and do, Spending Time provides engaging insights into how people use their time and what determines their decisions about spending their time.

Daniel S. Hamermesh is Distinguished Scholar, Barnard College, Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin and Royal Holloway, University of London. In 2013 he received the Mincer Award for Lifetime Contributions to Labor Economics of the Society of Labor Economists and the IZA Prize in Labor of the Institute for the Study of Labor.

- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction-You Can't Always Get What You Want
- Chapter 2. What Do We Do When We're Not Working?
- Chapter 3. How Much Do We Work?
- Chapter 4. When Do We Work?
- Chapter 5. Women and Men
- Chapter 6. So Happy Together?
- Chapter 7. "The Last of Life, for Which the First Was Made"
- Chapter 8. The Perennial Issue and an Old/New Concern
- Chapter 9. E Pluribus Unum?
- Chapter 10. Are "The Rich [really] Different from You and Me"?
- Chapter 11. Kvetching About Time
- Chapter 12. Do We Have More Time Now? Will We Get More Time?
- Chapter 13. What Is to Be Done?