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The New economics of human behavior / edited by Mariano Tommasi and Kathryn Ierulli

Tommasi, Mariano,i1964- [Herausgeber] ; Ierulli, Kathryn [Herausgeber]

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995

Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press

1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 238 pages)

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978-0-511-59904-0 ; 978-0-521-47420-7 ; 978-0-521-47949-3

CC 7750 QC 010

 

Wirtschaftssoziologie  Wirtschaftspsychologie 

 

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This 1995 volume views important social and political issues through the eyes of economists. Pioneered by Gary Becker, this approach asserts that all actions, whether working, playing, dating, or mating, have economic motivations and consequences, and can be analysed using economic reasoning. Intended as an introduction to the current state of the field, the essays are informal and non-technical, while still using up-to-date economic reasoning to illuminate such topics as crime, marriage, discrimination, immigration, fads and fashions. The expanding domain of economics is illustrated, as problems from sociology, political science, anthropology, and public policy are all included in this Beckerian view: the world of human interaction, as seen by an economist.