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.