UID:
almafu_9960119788702883
Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 238 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-59904-8
Content:
This 1995 volume views important social and political issues through the eyes of economists. Pioneered by Gary Becker, this approach asserts that all actions, whether working, playing, dating, or mating, have economic motivations and consequences, and can be analysed using economic reasoning. Intended as an introduction to the current state of the field, the essays are informal and non-technical, while still using up-to-date economic reasoning to illuminate such topics as crime, marriage, discrimination, immigration, fads and fashions. The expanding domain of economics is illustrated, as problems from sociology, political science, anthropology, and public policy are all included in this Beckerian view: the world of human interaction, as seen by an economist.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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The economics of discrimination : a primer / Barry R. Chiswick -- The economic analysis of immigration / George J. Borjas -- Rational criminals and profit-maximizing police : the economic analysis of law and law enforcement / David Friedman -- Property rights in children / James S. Coleman -- Human capital, fertility, and economic growth / Robert Tamura -- Marriage market models / Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman -- The marriage premium / Kermit Daniel -- The process of government / Edgardo Enrique Zablotsky -- The economic approach to democracy / John G. Matsusaka -- The economic approach to addictive behavior / Michael Grossman -- Household production, human capital, and the economics of religion / Laurence R. Iannaccone -- The blind leading the blind : social influence, fads, and informational cascades / David Hirshleifer -- Public health and economic epidemiology / Tomas Philipson.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-47949-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-47420-5
Language:
English
URL:
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511599040
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