This volume views important social and political issues through the eyes of economists. Pioneered by Gary Becker, this approach asserts that all actions, whether working, playing, dating, or mating, have economic motivations and consequences, and can be analyzed using economic reasoning. Intended as an introduction to the current state of the field, the essays are informal and nontechnical, while still using up-to-date economic reasoning to illuminate such topics as crime, marriage, discrimination, immigration, fads and fashions.
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Viewing important social and political issues through the eyes of economists, these essays assert that all actions--working, playing, dating, or mating--have economic motivations and consequences, and can be analyzed using economic reasoning.
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A Great Demonstration of the Power of Economics,
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This tribute to the work of Gary Becker by his students is a great example of how economics can be used to explain areas of social and human behavior outside the traditional purview of substantive economics. I use this book in my introductory political economy class, and although the chapters are sometimes difficult to read, this has become one of my students favorite books.
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- The Economics of Discrimination (Economic Research Studies) by Gary S. Becker on 6 pages
- A Treatise on the Family: Enlarged Edition by Gary S. Becker on 5 pages
- The Economic Approach to Human Behavior by Gary S. Becker in Front Matter, page 38, and page 186
- The Mask of Command by John Keegan on page 206, and page 215
- Price Theory by Milton Friedman in Front Matter, and page 57
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- The Imitation Factor: Evolution Beyond The Gene by Lee Alan Dugatkin in Back Matter
- Economics and Social Interaction: Accounting for Interpersonal Relations by Benedetto Gui in Back Matter
- Social Capital Versus Social Theory (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Political Economy) by Ben Fine in Back Matter
- Development Policy in the Twenty First Century: Beyond the Post-Washington Consensus (Routledge Studies in Development Economics) by Ben Fine on page 27
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