chayanov- lize-anne

Chayanov argues that the household functions itself as its own market in the sense that labor within the home levels off once consumption is met. Although the unit functions within the society surrounding it, it functions separately of the larger economic market. Becker argued for a household in which there was a provider, who acts as the link between the household unit and the greater economic market. The two theories can not co-exist because Chayanov argues for the households independence from the larger economy, while Becker argues that there is a link between them. The fundamental and irreconcilable difference seems to be the goal of the household itself. In Chayanov's case, it is the goal of the workers to support the dependents and to continue the unit. Becker seems to argue that the goal of the household is moreso in the direction of societal advancement of that unit.