James Mahmud Rice

James Mahmud Rice
Born 1972 (age 45–46)
Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
Awards Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research
Academic work
Discipline Sociologist
Institutions University of New South Wales
Australian National University
Website www.jamesmahmudrice.info

James Mahmud Rice (born 1972) is an Australian sociologist in the Demography and Ageing Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne. His main research interests lie in the areas of comparative political economy, social stratification, living standards, time use, and demographic change. In 2009, he was awarded the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research.[1]

Research

Discretionary time

Discretionary Time: A New Measure of Freedom[2] was published by Cambridge University Press in 2008 (with Robert E. Goodin, Antti Parpo, and Lina Eriksson). It is based on the authors' analysis of data from the United States, Australia, Germany, France, Sweden, and Finland.[3]

The authors propose that temporal autonomy can be used as an indicator of freedom, which is measured by how many hours people are free to do as they please.[4]

Another one of their statements is that the richer an individual is, the more he or she feels stressed. However, they argue, a richer individual's prosperity could be part of the problem. An example is that a banker who earns £200 per hour has a greater opportunity cost by choosing not to work, than a cleaner who earns only £10 per hour. As a result, the banker may feel compelled to work a greater number of hours than the cleaner does, despite making a greater total income.[5]

Appliances and their impact

Research by Michael Bittman, James Mahmud Rice, and Judy Wajcman[6] has shown that domestic appliances which are designed to make our lives easier do not reduce the overall time spent doing housework, and in some cases may even increase the time spent doing chores.[7]

"The authors ... believe that people use the devices simply to achieve ever-higher standards of cleanliness and refinement in their home, rather than to free up time for other pursuits," according to John Elliott in The Sunday Times.[7]

The results of this research received wide press coverage in Australia and the United Kingdom.[7][8][9][10][11][12]

Australian National Transfer Accounts

At present, Rice is working on the development of a system of Australian National Transfer Accounts, based on methodologies developed by the global National Transfer Accounts project.[1] National Transfer Accounts (NTA) have been described as:

A system of macroeconomic accounts that measures present economical flows distinguished by age in a manner consistent with the United Nations System of National Accounts. NTA measures categories of age-specific labour income, asset incomes, consumptions, any savings or transfers, accounting for flows within numerous households, and through the public sector along with the rest of the world.[13]

Awards and honours

In 2009, Rice won the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research, along with Robert E. Goodin, Antti Parpo, and Lina Eriksson, for their book Discretionary Time: A New Measure of Freedom.[14][15]

Selected publications

Books and reports

  • Goodin, Robert E.; Rice, James Mahmud; Parpo, Antti; Eriksson, Lina (2008). Discretionary Time: A New Measure of Freedom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-70951-4.
  • Rice, James Mahmud; Temple, Jeromey; McDonald, Peter (2014). National Transfer Accounts for Australia: 2003-04 and 2009-10 Detailed Results (PDF). ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research and Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University.

Journal articles

  • Bittman, Michael; Rice, James Mahmud; Wajcman, Judy (2004). "Appliances and their impact: The ownership of domestic technology and time spent on household work". British Journal of Sociology. 55 (3): 401–423. doi:10.1111/j.1468-4446.2004.00026.x.
  • Goodin, Robert E.; Rice, James Mahmud; Bittman, Michael; Saunders, Peter (2005). "The time-pressure illusion: Discretionary time vs free time". Social Indicators Research. 73 (1): 43–70. doi:10.1007/s11205-004-4642-9.
  • Rice, James Mahmud; Goodin, Robert E.; Parpo, Antti (2006). "The temporal welfare state: A crossnational comparison". Journal of Public Policy. 26 (3): 195–228. doi:10.1017/S0143814X06000523.
  • Lee, Ronald; Mason, Andrew; members of the NTA Network (including James Mahmud Rice) (2014). "Is low fertility really a problem? Population aging, dependency, and consumption". Science. 346 (6206): 229–234. doi:10.1126/science.1250542.
  • Rice, James M.; Temple, Jeromey B.; McDonald, Peter F. (2017). "Private and public consumption across generations in Australia". Australasian Journal on Ageing. 36 (4): 279–285. doi:10.1111/ajag.12489.

References

  1. 1 2 "James Mahmud Rice: Home". James Mahmud Rice. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  2. ↑ Goodin, Robert E.; Rice, James Mahmud; Parpo, Antti; Eriksson, Lina (2008). Discretionary Time: A New Measure of Freedom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-70951-4.
  3. ↑ "Discretionary Time". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  4. ↑ Graeff, Peter (2012). "Measuring individual freedom: Actions and rights as indicators of individual liberty". In McMahon, Fred. Towards a Worldwide Index of Human Freedom (PDF). Fraser Institute. pp. 113–135. ISBN 978-0-88975-259-7. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  5. ↑ Cave, Stephen (23 May 2008). "Time in our hands". Financial Times. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  6. ↑ Bittman, Michael; Rice, James Mahmud; Wajcman, Judy (2004). "Appliances and their impact: The ownership of domestic technology and time spent on household work". British Journal of Sociology. 55 (3): 401–423. doi:10.1111/j.1468-4446.2004.00026.x.
  7. 1 2 3 Elliott, John (19 September 2004). "It's a hard life on the "labour saving" domestic front". Sunday Times.
  8. ↑ Elliott, John (6 October 2004). "Time savers aren't doing their job". Australian.
  9. ↑ Horin, Adele (18 October 2003). "Money can't buy bliss in the kitchen". Sydney Morning Herald.
  10. ↑ "Leisure in the red with white goods". mX. 20 September 2004.
  11. ↑ Morgan, Tom (20 September 2004). "The labour savers that are making slaves of us". Daily Express.
  12. ↑ Safe, Mike (18 October 2003). "The lost weekend - dream travel". Weekend Australian Magazine.
  13. ↑ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (2013). 'National Transfer Accounts Manual: Measuring and Analysing the Generational Economy (PDF). New York: United Nations. p. 199. ISBN 978-92-1-151503-9.
  14. ↑ "Stein Rokkan". International Social Science Council.
  15. ↑ "Stein Rokkan Prize Winners". European Consortium for Political Research.
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