Social economics : current and emerging avenues / edited by Joan Costa-Font and Mario Macis.
2017
HM548 .S59 2017eb
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Title
Social economics : current and emerging avenues / edited by Joan Costa-Font and Mario Macis.
ISBN
9780262337915 (electronic bk.)
0262337916 (electronic bk.)
9780262035651
0262035650
0262337916 (electronic bk.)
9780262035651
0262035650
Published
Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2017]
Copyright
©2017
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (vi, 332 pages) : illustrations.
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HM548 .S59 2017eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
302
Summary
The growing field of social economics explores how individual behavior is affected by group-level influences, extending the approach of mainstream economics to include broader social motivations and incentives. This book offers a rich and rigorous selection of current work in the field, focusing on some of the most active research areas. Topics covered include culture, gender, ethics, and philanthropic behavior. Social economics grows out of dissatisfaction with a purely individualistic model of human behavior. This book shows how mainstream economics is expanding its domain beyond market and price mechanisms to recognize a role for cultural and social factors. Some chapters, in the tradition of Gary Becker, attempt to extend the economics paradigm to explain other social phenomena; others, following George Akerlof's approach, incorporate sociological and psychological assumptions to explain economic behavior. Loosely organized by theme--Social Preferences; Culture, Values, and Norms; and Networks and Social Interactions"--The chapters address a range of subjects, including gender differences in political decisions, "moral repugnance" as a constraint on markets, charitable giving by the super-rich, value diversity within a country, and the influence of children on their parents' social networks.-- Provided by Publisher.
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Costa-i-Font, Joan, editor.
Macis, Mario, editor.
Macis, Mario, editor.
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