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- Social Economics: Current and Emerging Avenues
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: The MIT Press
- Series: CESifo Seminar Series
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.ContributorsMireia Borrell-Porta, Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, Joan Costa-Font, Elwyn Davies, Julio Jorge Elias, Marcel Fafchamps, Luigi Guiso, Odelia Heizler, Ayal Kimhi, Mariko J. Klasing, Martin Ljunge, Mario Macis, Mark Ottoni-Wilhelm, Abigail Payne, Kelly Ragan, Jana Sadeh, Azusa Sato, Kimberley Scharf, Sarah Smith, Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos, Evguenia Winschel, Philipp Zahn
Table of Contents
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- Series Foreword
- pp. vii-viii
- Social Preferences
- Culture, Values, and Norms
- 6. The Microeconomics of Trust
- pp. 109-128
- 8. Cultural Persistence and the Pill
- pp. 173-196
- 12. Changing Culture to Change Society?
- pp. 261-280
- Networks, Peer Pressure, and Social Interactions
- Contributors
- pp. 327-328
Additional Information
ISBN
9780262337915
Related ISBN(s)
9780262035651
MARC Record
OCLC
971118995
Pages
344
Launched on MUSE
2017-03-14
Language
English
Open Access
No