How can economists define social preferences and interactions?
Culture, familial beliefs, religion, and other�sources contain the origins of social preferences.� Those preferences--the desire for social status, for instance, or�the disinclination to receive financial support--often accompany predictable�economic outcomes.��Through the use of new economic data and tools, our contributors survey an array of social interactions and decisions that typify homo economicus.��Their�work brings order to the�sometimes conflicting claims that countries, environments, beliefs, and other influences make on our economic decisions.
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Table of Contents
Social Preferences- Nature and Nurture Effects On Children's Outcomes (Bruce Sacerdote)
- Social Norms and Preferences�(Andrew Postlewaite)
- Preferences for Status: Evidence and Economic Implications (Ori Heffetz and Robert H. Frank)
- Preferences for Redistribution (Alberto Alesina and Paola Giuliano)
- Theories of Statistical Discrimination and Affirmative Action�(Hanmign Fang and Andrea Moro)
- Social Construction of Preferences: Advertising�(Jess Benhabib and Alberto Bisin)
- The Evolutionary Foundations of Preferences (Arthur J. Robson and Larry Samuelson)
- Social Norms (Mary A. Burke and H. Peyton Young)
- The Economics of Cultural Transmission and Socialization (Alberto Bisin and Thierry Verdier)
- Civic Capital as the Missing Link (Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales)
- Does Culture Matter? (Raquel Fern�ndez)
�Social Actions
- An Overview of Social networks and Economic Applications (Matthew O. Jackson)
- Local Interactions�(Onur �zg�r)
- Diffusion, Strategic Interaction, and Social Structure�(Matthew O. jackson and Leeat Yariv)
- Learning in Networks�(Sanjeev Goyal)
- Formation of Networks and Coalitions (Francis Block and Bhaskar Dutta)
- Matching, Allocation, and Exchange of Discrete Resources (Tayfun S�nmez and M. Utku �nver)
Author
Benhabib, Jess.Bisin, Alberto.
Jackson, Matthew O.
