ISBN:
0444531874
,
0444537074
,
0444537147
,
9780444531872
,
9780444537072
,
9780444537140
Language:
English
Pages:
online resource (1340, 1-61 S.)
,
ill
Edition:
Online edition Elsevier Handbooks in Economics Series on ScienceDirect
Series Statement:
Handbooks in economics
Parallel Title:
Print version Handbook of social economics
DDC:
306.3
Keywords:
Economics Sociological aspects
Abstract:
How can economists define and measure social preferences and interactions? Through the use of new economic data and tools, our contributors survey an array of social interactions and decisions that typify homo economicus. Identifying economic strains in activities such as learning, group formation, discrimination, and the creation of peer dynamics, they demonstrate how they tease out social preferences from the influences of culture, familial beliefs, religion, and other forces. Advances our understanding about quantifying social interactions
Abstract:
How can economists define and measure social preferences and interactions? Through the use of new economic data and tools, our contributors survey an array of social interactions and decisions that typify homo economicus. Identifying economic strains in activities such as learning, group formation, discrimination, and the creation of peer dynamics, they demonstrate how they tease out social preferences from the influences of culture, familial beliefs, religion, and other forces. Advances our understanding about quantifying social interactions and the effects of culture Summarizes research on theoretical and applied economic analyses of social preferences Explores the recent willingness among economists to consider new arguments in the utility function
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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