Accounting for Tastes / / Gary S. Becker.
In the year 2000 the World Health Organization estimated that 85 percent of fifteen-year-olds in Botswana would eventually die of AIDS. In Saturday Is for Funerals we learn why that won't happen. Unity Dow and Max Essex tell the true story of lives ravaged by AIDS—of orphans, bereaved parents,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- PART I. PERSONAL CAPITAL
- 1. Preferences and Values
- 2. De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum
- 3. A Theory of Rational Addiction
- 4. Rational Addiction and the Effect of Price on Consumption
- 5. An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction
- 6. Habits, Addictions, and Traditions
- PART II. SOCIAL CAPITAL
- 7. The Economic Way of Looking at Life
- 8. A Theory of Social Interactions
- 9. A Note on Restaurant Pricing and Other Examples of Social Influences on Price
- 10. A Simple Theory of Advertising as a Good or Bad
- 11. Norms and the Formation of Preferences
- 12. Spouses and Beggars: Love and Sympathy
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Index