The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Prostitution
Book description
Prostitution bears the unique title of being both the "world's oldest profession" and one of the least understood occupations. Unlike most of the crime and family literature, prostitution appears to be have all the features of traditional markets: prices, supply and demand considerations, variety in the organizational structure, and policy…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Prostitution as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
If you want to know how economists think about sex work (which is, after all, a market transaction) this is the book to go to.
This is a collected volume, but if you were interested in how economists do work on sex work and what the major findings have been in the process, you would want to read this book.
There are technical issues covered here in terms of data, how research on sex work is different in developed versus developing countries, and the online market for sex work.
It also contains a great discussion of the public health issues…
From Trevon's list on understandING the world’s oldest profession.
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