Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (655 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691152551 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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George A. Rachel E. Akerlof, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, is the Koshland Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. . Kranton is professor of economics at Duke University. He is the coauthor, with Robert Shiller, of "Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy," and "Why It Matters for Global Capitalism" (Princeton)
Jeff Lippincott said Everyone has 1 or "Everyone has 1 or 2 identities. 1 they see themselves having, & 1 others see them having. But only some can lead to success!" according to Jeff Lippincott. I loved this book. I decided to read it after skimming its Table of Contents and discovering that it would probably be a good companion book to another book I recently read and reviewed: Teaching As Leadership: The Highly Effective Teacher's Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap. And I suspect a good companion book to the instant book would probably be Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. As a collective unit, all three books seem to indicate that people can be successful but . identities. 1 they see themselves having, & 1 others see them having. But only some can lead to success!. I loved this book. I decided to read it after skimming its Table of Contents and discovering that it would probably be a good companion book to another book I recently read and reviewed: Teaching As Leadership: The Highly Effective Teacher's Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap. And I suspect a good companion book to the instant book would probably be Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. As a collective unit, all three books seem to indicate that people can be successful but . Economics Grows Up Economics has been going through an exciting transition. It was once known as the emperor of the social sciences back when the hyper-rational school of neoclassical economics was ascendant. Then psychologists and other more empirically-minded social scientists began to look at how real people make their choices and they found that, surprise, surprise, the emperor of the social sciences had no clothes.But economists seem to have taken this criticism seriously and economists are developing new. Concise, Relevant, Documents New Knowledge, Respects Work of Others Robert David STEELE Vivas This book is a solid five, and one of those instances when brevity adds value. While I was concerned to see no discussion of "true cost" economics and the book is overly fawning on Goldman Sachs (written before Goldman Sachs was exposed for its multiple fiscal crimes against both investors and governments), the superior References, Notes, and Acknowledgements balanced this out. This work began in 1995.This is an engrossing book and it immediately overcame my general disdain for economists, m
Identity economics is a new way to understand people's decisions--at work, at school, and at home. 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. 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. 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. 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. Identity, she argued, was the missing element that would help to explain why people--facing the same economic circumstances--would make different choices. Thus people's iden
While decidedly a trade book, the substantial list of references and strong foundations in the economics literature provide further reading for those who may be more mathematically inclined. Akerlof, Co-Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in EconomicsOne of Bloomberg News's (bloomberg/news) Top Thirty Business Books of the Year for 2010Honorable Mention for the 2010 PROSE Award in Economics, Association of American Publishers"Akerlof and Kranton explore the links between our identities and the everyday decisions we make about earning a