Explorations in pragmatic economics : selected papers of George A. Akerlof (and co-authors)/

Akerlof, George A

Explorations in pragmatic economics : selected papers of George A. Akerlof (and co-authors)/ George A Akerlof - London: Oxford University press, 2005. - ix,514p.

Part I. Microeconomics --
1. The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism --
2. The Economics of Caste and of the Rat Race and Other Woeful Tales --
3. Discriminatory, Status-based Wages among Tradition-oriented, Stochastically Trading Coconut Producers --
4. Economics and Identity --
5. The Economics of Tagging as Applied to the Optimal Income Tax, Welfare Programs, and Manpower Planning --
6. An Analysis of Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing in the United States --
7. Men without Children --
8. The Economic Consequences of Cognitive Dissonance --
9. The Economics of Illusion --
10. Procrastination and Obedience --
11. Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit --
Part II.Macroeconomics--
12. Relative Wages and the Rate of Inflation
13.The Microeconomic Foundations of a Flow of Founds Theory of the Demand for Money--
14.Irving Fisher on his Head:The Consequences of Constant Threshold -Target Monitoring og Money Holding--
15.Jobs as Dam Sites--
16.Labor Contracts as Partial Gift Exchange--
17.The Fair Wage-Efforts Hypothesis and Unemployment--
18.A Near -Rational Model of the Business Cycle,with Wage and Price Inertia--
19.The Macroeconomics of Low Inflation--
20.Behavioral Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Behavior.


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