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Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity

This paper assesses the role of ideas in economic change, combining economic and historical analysis with insights from psychology, sociology and anthropology. Belief systems shape the system of categories ("pre-confirmatory bias") and pe...

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Main Authors: Hoff, Karla, Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Language:English
Published: 2012
Subjects:
AFRICANS
ANTHROPOLOGISTS
ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTIQUITY
ATTENTION
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES
BELIEF SYSTEMS
BELIEFS
BIOLOGICAL INEQUALITY
BLACK
BLACK MEN
CHRISTIANITY
CHRISTIANS
CHURCH
CIVIL RIGHTS
CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST
CIVILIZATION
COGNITION
COGNITIVE SCIENCE
COLONIAL POWERS
COLONIAL SOCIETY
COLONIALISM
COLONIES
COLONISTS
CONSTRUCTION OF RACE
CREATION
CULTURES
DISCRIMINATION
DISTRIBUTION OF POWER
DOMINANT GROUP
DRAMA
ECONOMIC HISTORY
GOD
GODS
HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
IDEOLOGIES
INDIVIDUALISM
INFERIORITY
IRRATIONAL BELIEFS
LAND OWNERSHIP
LEGISLATION
LITERATURE
MORALITY
MORALS
OPPRESSION
PERCEPTION
PERCEPTIONS
PHILOSOPHY
PREJUDICE
PRINCIPLES
PSYCHOLOGY
RACE
RACE THEORY
RACES
RACIAL CATEGORIES
RACIAL DIFFERENCES
RACIAL IDEOLOGY
RACIAL INEQUALITY
RACIAL SUPERIORITY
RACISM
RACIST
RACIST SOCIETY
READING
RELIGIOUS IDEAS
RITUALS
SELF-CONFIDENCE
SKIN COLOR
SLAVE LABOR
SLAVERY
SLAVES
SOCIAL CHANGE
SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS
SOCIAL HIERARCHY
SOCIAL IDENTITY
SPEECH
SPIRITS
XENOPHOBIA
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http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3706

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http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3706

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