 The institutions of the work-leisure divideMassimo D'Antoni and Ugo Pagano (ugo.pagano@unisi.it) Department of Economics University of Siena from Department of Economics, University of Siena Abstract: Even in the most advanced societies, individuals seem to live in mutually exclusive social and economic spheres. During their leisure time, there is an increasing supply of all sorts of goods that should allow all sorts of happy activities. During their work time they feel used as increasingly flexible means of production. Institutions, which include consumption, are often excluding production. Institutions, which include production, are often excluding consumption. Standard economic theory has become a powerful ideology justifying this divide. The paper challenges this ideology and proposes a more general approach where in principle all human activities can contribute to final utility as well as to production. Our approach can give a rationale for policies favoring inclusive institutions that try to overcome the work-leisure divide and allow us to move towards a more satisfactory structure of human activitie Keywords: work; leisure; economic ideology; institutions of capitalism (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:usi:wpaper:852 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Department of Economics University of Siena from Department of Economics, University of Siena Contact information at EDIRC. |
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