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Striving for Balance in Economics : Towards a Theory of the Social Determination of Behavior

This paper is an attempt to broaden economic discourse by importing insights into human behavior not just from psychology, but also from sociology and anthropology. Whereas the concept of the decision-maker in standard economics is the rational act...

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Main Authors: Hoff, Karla, Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:
BELIEF SYSTEMS
FISH
MASS MEDIA
ECONOMIC INCENTIVES
MOTIVATION
BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT
DRAMA
PERSONALITY
WELFARE ECONOMICS
MULTIPLIERS
UTILITY FUNCTIONS
AGGRESSION
LANGUAGES
TIME
SOCIAL INTERACTIONS
CARBON
PSYCHOLOGY
HUMANITIES
ROLE
EXPECTATIONS
BIAS
GROUPS
PROPERTY RIGHTS
INTELLIGENCE
FINANCIAL RESOURCES
EMISSIONS
WELFARE FUNCTION
INCENTIVES
PSYCHOLOGISTS
CONDITIONS
MODELS
THINKING
ASSOCIATIONS
POSITIVE ECONOMICS
SOCIAL SCIENCES
LANGUAGE
CULTURE
TROPICAL ISLAND
TELEVISION
PRESS
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
BEHAVIOR
THOUGHT
EXPLOITATION
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
DECISION‐MAKING
RITUALS
PERCEPTIONS
OPERA
RELATIONSHIPS
ABILITY
EXTERNALITIES
DEMAND CURVES
DEBT
ESSAYS
SOCIAL STRUCTURES
LEARNING
PSYCHOLOGIST
ECONOMIC POLICIES
CULTURAL CONTEXT
HISTORY
REASONING
INFORMATION PROCESSING
CULTURAL RESEARCH
RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
RADIO
COGNITION
CARBON EMISSIONS
PUBLISHING
RESOURCES
INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR
UNEMPLOYMENT
ANTHROPOLOGY
BELIEFS
PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS
CONSUMPTION
TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
SPORTS
WAGES
CLIMATE CHANGE
SCIENCE
ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR
HABITS
MEDIA INFLUENCES
VALUES
SCHOOLS
BASIC
GENDER
CREDIT
DIVISION OF LABOR
ENVIRONMENTS
LITERATURE
EFFORT
PROPERTY
SOCIAL COGNITION
ETHNOGRAPHY
HUMAN BEHAVIOR
COGNITIVE ABILITY
ENVIRONMENT
ECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS
COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
MASCULINITY
ECONOMIC MODELS
COGNITIVE PROCESSES
FEELINGS
SOCIAL CAPITAL
TRADE
CULTURES
PERCEPTION
ENCULTURATION
UNDERSTANDING
CHILDREN
INVOLUNTARY UNEMPLOYMENT
CONSUMPTION PATTERNS
TRUSTS
ECOLOGY
EXPERIENCE
ATTENTION
ACTIVITY
INTERACTIONS
INDIVIDUALS
BUILDING
INVESTMENTS
COIN
TRADITIONS
DEPENDENCE
WOMEN
CONCEPTS
MEMORY
CULTURAL FACTORS
PRIMING
PRICES
PUBLIC GOODS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/01/25814159/striving-balance-economics-towards-theory-social-determination-behavior
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23704

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/01/25814159/striving-balance-economics-towards-theory-social-determination-behavior
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23704

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