Identity Economics

Author : George A. Akerlof
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140083418X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identity Economics written by George A. Akerlof and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How identity influences the economic choices we make 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 of who we are and who we want to be may shape our economic lives more than any other factor, affecting how hard we work, and how we learn, spend, and save. Identity economics is a new way to understand people's decisions—at work, at school, and at home. With it, we can better appreciate why incentives like stock options work or don't; why some schools succeed and others don't; why some cities and towns don't invest in their futures—and much, much more. Identity Economics bridges a critical gap in the social sciences. It brings identity and norms to economics. People's notions of what is proper, and what is forbidden, and for whom, are fundamental to how hard they work, and how they learn, spend, and save. Thus people's identity—their conception of who they are, and of who they choose to be—may be the most important factor affecting their economic lives. And the limits placed by society on people's identity can also be crucial determinants of their economic well-being.

Author : George A. Akerlof
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691152551
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identity Economics written by George A. Akerlof and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. This work bridges a critical gap in the social sciences. It brings identity and norms to economics. People's notions of what is proper, and what is forbidden, and for whom, are fundamental to how hard they work, and how they learn, spend, and save.

Author : L. Jean Camp
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387686142
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economics of Identity Theft written by L. Jean Camp and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This professional book discusses privacy as multi-dimensional, and then pulls forward the economics of privacy in the first few chapters. This book also includes identity-based signatures, spyware, and placing biometric security in an economically broken system, which results in a broken biometric system. The last chapters include systematic problems with practical individual strategies for preventing identity theft for any reader of any economic status. While a plethora of books on identity theft exists, this book combines both technical and economic aspects, presented from the perspective of the identified individual.

Author : Nitasha Kaul
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134175310
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Economics Otherwise written by Nitasha Kaul and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-10-04 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is possible to beirrational without beinguneconomic ? What is the link betweenValue andvalues ? What do economists do when theyexplain ? We live in times when the economic logic has become unquestionable and all-powerful so that our quotidian economic experiences are defined by their scientific construal. This book is the result of a

Author : Emma Coleman Jordan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781599419589
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic Justice written by Emma Coleman Jordan and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This casebook provides a means to further the conversation between critical legal scholarship and law and economics. It addresses such issues as what economics can tell us about democracy and the law, what theories of justice can tell us about economic theory and the law, and why no legal language addressing class in the United States exists, and what such a language might look like. It uses the problem of racial and gender injustice as a basis to interrogate both critical theory and economic theory. The Second Edition provides a timely new chapter on the financial collapse, the turmoil in modern macroeconomic theory, and the economic justice claims of borrowers who received predatory loans. The coverage expands to include the following: Origins of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis The Racial Wealth Gap and HomeownershipIdentity and WealthGlobal Interconnectedness of Financial Institutions and The Paradox of domestic discriminationWhat Happened to Economics? The Turmoil in the economics discipline and its failure to predict the housing bubble and collapseThe Inequality Machine: Cashflow Waterfalls and Predatory Loans: Greenwich Financial Services v Countrywide MortgageThe Contract Claims vs the Economic Justice Claims Bonuses: Democracy and Contracts: Listening to the Outrage. What is Fair? City of Baltimore v Wells Fargo California v Countrywide MortgageResistance and Self-Help Squatters Judicial nullification of foreclosure enforcement actions MERS Litigation- How Electronic Efficiencies in Property Recordation Failed the Requisites of Property Formality.

Author : L. Jean Camp
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461419182
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economics of Financial and Medical Identity Theft written by L. Jean Camp and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-21 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial identity theft is well understood with clear underlying motives. Medical identity theft is new and presents a growing problem. The solutions to both problems however, are less clear. The Economics of Financial and Medical Identity Theft discusses how the digital networked environment is critically different from the world of paper, eyeballs and pens. Many of the effective identity protections are embedded behind the eyeballs, where the presumably passive observer is actually a fairly keen student of human behavior. The emergence of medical identity theft and the implications of medical data privacy are described in the second section of this book. The Economics of Financial and Medical Identity Theft also presents an overview of the current technology for identity management. The book closes with a series of vignettes in the last chapter, looking at the risks we may see in the future and how these risks can be mitigated or avoided.

Author : John B. Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521173537
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Individuals and Identity in Economics written by John B. Davis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the different conceptions of the individual that have emerged in recent new approaches in economics, including behavioral economics, experimental economics, social preferences approaches, game theory, neuroeconomics, evolutionary and complexity economics, and the capability approach. These conceptions are classified according to whether they seek to revise the traditional atomist individual conception, put new emphasis on interaction and relations between individuals, account for individuals as evolving and self-organizing, and explain individuals in terms of capabilities. The method of analysis uses two identity criteria for distinguishing and re-identifying individuals to determine whether these different individual conceptions successfully identify individuals. Successful individual conceptions account for sub-personal and supra-personal bounds on single individual explanations. The former concerns the fragmentation of individuals into multiple selves; the latter concerns the dissolution of individuals into the social. The book develops an understanding of bounded individuality, seen as central to the defense of human rights.

Author : Janet T. Landa
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472103614
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trust, Ethnicity, and Identity written by Janet T. Landa and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How ethnic kin-based trading networks can rely on trust when a well-developed framework of contract laws is missing

Author : Kate Meagher
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 978081373X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identity Economics written by Kate Meagher and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title traces the rise of two dynamic informal enterprise clusters in Nigeria and explores their slide into trajectories of Pentecostalism, poverty and violent vigilantism.

Author : John B Davis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134633467
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theory of the Individual in Economics written by John B Davis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-03-20 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of the individual and his/her motivations is a bedrock of philosophy. All strands of thought at heart come down to a particular theory of the individual. Economics, though, is guilty of taking this hugely important concept without questioning how we theorise it. This superb book remedies this oversight.The new approach put forward by Da