Identity Economics : How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being /

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Identity Economics provides an important and compelling new way to understand human behavior, revealing how our identities--and not just economic incentives--influence our decisions. In 1995, economist Rachel Kranton wrote future Nobel Prize-winner George Akerlof a letter insisting that his most rec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Akerlof, George A., 1940- (Autor), Kranton, Rachel E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Economie.
Waarden.
Identiteit.
Identity (Psychology)
Economics > Sociological aspects.
Economics > Psychological aspects.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Microeconomics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Identite (Psychologie)
Économie politique > Aspect psychologique.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Identity Economics provides an important and compelling new way to understand human behavior, revealing how our identities--and not just economic incentives--influence our decisions. In 1995, economist Rachel Kranton wrote future Nobel Prize-winner George Akerlof a letter insisting that his most recent paper was wrong. Identity, she argued, was the missing element that would help to explain why people--facing the same economic circumstances--would make different choices. This was the beginning of a fourteen-year collaboration--and of Identity Economics. The authors explain how our conception o.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (200 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781400834181

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