Häftad, Engelska, 1998
Accounting for Tastes
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Beskrivning
Economists generally accept as a given the old adage that there’s no accounting for tastes. Nobel Laureate Gary Becker disagrees, and in this lively new collection he confronts the problem of preferences and values: how they are formed and how they affect our behavior. He argues that past experiences and social influences form two basic capital stocks: personal and social. He then applies these concepts to assessing the effects of advertising, the power of peer pressure, the nature of addiction, and the function of habits. This framework promises to illuminate many other realms of social life previously considered off-limits by economists.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum: 1998-03-30
- Mått: 155 x 235 x 15 mm
- Vikt: 360 g
- Format: Häftad
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 292
- Förlag: Harvard University Press
- ISBN: 9780674543577
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Gary S. Becker was University Professor of Economics and Sociology at the University of Chicago. In 1992, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics.
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[Becker’s] achievement has been to create an elegant structure, internally consistent and based on reasonable assumptions, and to use it to generate many testable propositions about how people grapple with the complexities of personal choice… [He] has helped to liberate economics from a straitjacket of oversimplification and narrowness of view.
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