Handbook of Social Economics (Volume 1B) (Handbooks in Economics, Volume 1B) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0444537074 ISBN 13: 9780444537072

Publisher: North Holland, 2010

Synopsis

How do economists understand and measure normal social phenomena? 

Identifying economic strains in activities such as learning, group formation, discrimination, and peer dynamics requires sophisticated data and tools as well as a grasp of prior scholarship.  In this volume leading economists provide an authoritative summary of social choice economics, from norms and conventions to the exchange of discrete resources. Including both theoretical and empirical perspectives, their work provides the basis for models that can offer new insights in applied economic analyses. 

• Reviews the recent approaches that enable economists to separate influences of culture from those caused by economic and institutional environments
• Explores the recent willingness among economists to consider new arguments in the utility function
• Presumes that these investigations can eventually be translated into policies

About this title

About the Author:

Alberto Bisin is Professor of Economics at New York University and an elected fellow of the Econometric Society. He is also fellow of the NBER, the CEPR, and CESS at NYU, CIREQ. He has been Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Theory, of Economic Theory, and of Research in Economics. He is founding editor of noiseFromAmerika.org and contributes op-eds for the italian newspaper La Repubblica. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, obtained in 1994. His main contributions are in the fields of Social Economics, Financial Economics, and Behavioral Economics.

About this edition

• Publisher: North Holland
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0444537074
• ISBN 13: 9780444537072
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 568
• Editor: Benhabib Jess, Bisin Alberto, Jackson Matthew O.