The privilege of care and its relationship to the economy
探讨正式与非正式照护对经济测量的影响，提出“照护特权”概念，并从个人、家庭和社区三个层面测量照护的经济活动，解释照护者与决策者之间的权力差距如何阻碍支持非正式照护的政策。
Abstract This paper provides a conceptual overview and exploration of formal and informal care provisions and their implications on economic measurement related to market and non-market care activities. Individuals with easy access to care provisions are often in positions of power and control policy decision-making, budgetary purse strings, and even the production of official economic statistics. Individuals providing formal and informal care often lack the adequate power in decision-making processes that influence social policy and resource allocation in a way that would advantage them. This division between having the privilege of care and having power to allocate public and private care resources may help explain why when the division between caregivers and policy-makers is greater, societies often struggle to pass legislation and policies that support informal provisions of care. This gap can also help explain the lack of economic measurement as it relates to care activities, especially informal care. In this paper, we define care privilege, develop methods for measuring the economic activity of care at three different levels: the individual, the household, and the community, and discuss how these different measures influence our perceptions of care, care privilege, and the economic value of care to society.