Social economics : market behavior in a social environment

Gary S. Becker, Kevin M. Murphy

Economists assume that people make choices based on their preferences and their budget constraints. The preferences and values of others play no role in the standard economic model. This feature has been sharply criticized by other social scientists, who believe that the choices people make are also conditiond by social and cultural forces. Economists, meanwhile, are not satisfied with standard sociological and anthropological concepts and explanations because they are not embedded in a testable, analytic framework. In this book, Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy provide such a framework by including the social environment along with standard goods and services in their utility functions. These extended utility functions provide a way of analyzing how changes in the social environment affect people's choices and behaviours. More important, they also provide a way of analyzing how the social environment itself is determined by the interactions of individuals. Using this approach, the authors are able to explain many puzzling phenomena, including patterns of drug use, how love affects marriage patterns, neighbourhood segregation, the prices of fine art and other collectibles, the social side of trademarks, the rise and fall of facts and fashions, and the distribution of income and status.

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  • Acknowledgments Part I The Effect of Social Capital on Market Behavior 1. The Importance of Social Interactions 2. Social Forces, Preferences, and Complementarity 3. Are Choices "Rational" When Social Capital Is Important? Part II The Formation of Social Capital 4. Sorting by Marriage 5. Segregation and Integration in Neighborhoods 6. The Social Market for the Great Masters and Other Collectibles with William Landes 7. Social Markets and the Escalation of Quality: The World of Veblen Revisited with Edward Glaeser 8. Status and Inequality with Ivan Werning Part III Fads, Fashions, and Norms 9. Fads and Fashion 10. The Formation of Norms and Values References Author Index Subject Index

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書名 Social economics : market behavior in a social environment
著作者等 Becker, Gary Stanley
Becker Gary S.
Murphy Kevin M.
出版元 Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
刊行年月 2000
ページ数 x, 170 p.
大きさ 25 cm
ISBN 067401121X
0674003373
NCID BA50744342
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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