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.
Format:	Working Paper
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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Striving for Balance in Economics : Towards a Theory of the Social Determination of Behavior

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