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

Identity Economics : : How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being / / Rachel E. Kranton, George A. Akerlof.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Akerlof, George A.,
Kranton, Rachel E.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.) :; 1 halftone. 1 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Part One: Economics and Identity
  • ONE. Introduction
  • TWO. Identity Economics
  • THREE. Identity and Norms in Utility
  • POSTSCRIPT TO CHAPTER THREE. A Rosetta Stone
  • FOUR. Where We Fit into Today's Economics
  • Part Two: Work and School
  • FIVE. Identity and the Economics of Organizations
  • SIX. Identity and the Economics of Education
  • Part Three: Gender and Race
  • SEVEN. Gender and Work
  • EIGHT. Race and Minority Poverty
  • Part Four: Looking Ahead
  • NINE. Identity Economics and Economic Methodology
  • TEN. Conclusion, and Five Ways Identity Changes Economics
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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