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How can economists define social preferences and interactions?Culture, familial beliefs, religion, and other sources contain the origins of social preferences. Those preferences--the desire for social status, for instance, or the disinclination to receive financial support--often accompany predictable economic outcomes. Through the use of new economic data and tools, our contributors survey an array of social interactions and decisions that typify homo economicus. Their work brings order to t

First Author: Benhabib, Jess; Jackson, Matthew O.; Bisin, Alberto
Attributed to:  Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE) funded by ESRC

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Bibliographic Information

Type: Book Chapter

Book Title: Handbook of Social Economics: Volume 1A (2010)

ISBN: 9780444531872