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Economics and Diversity.
D'Ippoliti introduces the concept of diversity to summarise all differences that are of social origin and that a theory or model seeks to explain. This contrasts with the traditional concept of heterogeneity that instead refers to differences that are deemed to be exogenous of economic theory....
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2011.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: There is difference in difference: Diversity and heterogeneity; 1 The night in which all cows are black?; 2 Lessons from the past; Part II: Difference, behavior and aggregative analysis; 3 Social sciences and the act of classification; 4 Individual and aggregate behavior; 5 Consequences for economic theory and method; Part III: On gender diversity; 6 Gender diversity as inequality; 7 Schmoller on the origin of gender inequality; 8 Mill and the liberal stance; 9 The state, the market, and gender.
- Part IV: An application: Gender diversity in the labor market10 Gender, diversity and heterogeneity in the labor market; 11 How gender may help in understanding the labor market; 12 How economics may help in understanding gender; 13 Analysis of men's and women's employment; Conclusions: Difference or indifference?; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.