Introduction -- Identity economics -- Identity and norms in utility -- Where we fit into today's economics -- Identity and the economics of organizations -- Identity and the economics of education -- Gender and work -- Race and minority poverty -- Identity economics and economic methodology -- Conclusion, and five ways identity changes economics.
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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 recent paper was wrong. Identity, she argued, was the missing element that would help to explain why people--facing the same economic circumstances--would make different choices. This was the beginning of a fourteen-year collaboration--and of Identity Economics. The authors explain how our conception o.
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Identity economics.
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Economics-- Psychological aspects.
Economics-- Sociological aspects.
Identity (Psychology)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Economics-- Microeconomics.
Economics-- Psychological aspects.
Economics-- Sociological aspects.
Economie.
Identiteit.
Identity (Psychology)
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.