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The social economics of poverty : on identities, communities, groups, and networks /
This title presents an analysis of the moral and social dimensions of microeconomic behaviour, questioning the application of standard neo-classical assumptions to communities with widespread disparity of income.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2005.
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| Colección: | Priorities for development economics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- On the relevance of identities, communities, groups, and networks to the economics of poverty alleviation / Christopher B. Barrett
- Toward an economic theory of dysfunctional identity / Hanming Fang and Glenn C. Loury
- Polarization : concepts, measurement, estimation / Jean-Yves Duclos, Joan Esteban and Debraj Ray
- Evolutionary equilibrium with forward-looking players / Lawrence E. Blume
- Is inequality an evolutionary universal? / Samuel Bowles
- Bridging communal divides : separation, patronage, integration / Indraneel Dasgupta and Ravi Kanbur
- The extended family system and market interactions / Karla Hoff and Arijit Sen
- Social divisions within schools : how school policies can affect students' identities and educational choices / George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton
- Smallholder identities and social networks : the challenge of improving productivity and welfare / Christopher B. Barrett
- Social networks in Ghana / Christopher R. Udry and Timothy G. Conley
- Coping with disaster : morals, markets and mutual insurance : using economic experiments to study recovery from Hurricane Mitch / Michael R. Carter and Marco Castillo
- The role of ethnicity and networks in agricultural trade : evidence from Africa / Marcel Fafchamps
- Altruism, household co-residence and women's health investment in rural Bangladesh / Andrew D. Foster
- Self-help groups and income generation in the informal settlements of Nairobi / Eliana La Ferrara
- Community ties and land inheritance in the context of rising outside opportunities : evidence from the Peruvian highlands / Tatiana Goetghebuer and Jean-Philippe Platteau.