Identity Economics： How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 200 pages

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Imprint:Princeton University Press

ISBN:9780691152554

Published:26 Sep 2011

Weight:288g

Dimensions:227 x 149 x 14 (mm)

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書籍簡介

身份經濟學為理解人類行為提供了一種重要而引人注目的新方式，揭示了我們的身份——而不僅僅是經濟激勵——是如何影響我們的決策的。1995年，經濟學家雷切爾?克蘭頓給未來的諾貝爾獎得主喬治?阿克洛夫寫了一封信，堅稱他近來的論文是錯誤的。她認為，身份是幫助解釋為什麼面對同樣經濟環境的人們會做出不同選擇的缺失因素。

這是一項長達14年的合作的開端——也是身份經濟學的開端。作者解釋説，我們對自己是誰和想成為什麼樣的人的觀念，可能比任何其他因素都更能影響我們的經濟生活，影響我們工作的努力程度，以及我們學習、消費和儲蓄的方式。身份經濟學是一種理解人們在工作、學校和家庭中的決定的新方法。

有了它，我們可以更好地理解為什麼像股票期權這樣的激勵機制起作用或不起作用;為什麼有些學校成功而有些學校失敗;為什麼一些城市和城鎮不投資他們的未來——還有很多很多。身份經濟學填補了社會科學中的一個關鍵缺口。它給經濟學帶來了認同和規範。

人們對於什麼是正確的，什麼是禁止的，以及為誰的觀念，是他們如何努力工作，如何學習、消費和儲蓄的基礎。因此，人們的身份——他們對自己是誰以及他們選擇成為誰的看法——可能是影響他們經濟生活的最重要因素。社會對人們身份的限制也可能是他們經濟福祉的關鍵決定因素。

Identity Economics provides an important and compelling new way to understand human behavior, revealing how our identities--and not just economic incentives--influence our decisions. In 1995, economist Rachel Kranton wrote future Nobel Prize-winner George Akerlof a letter insisting that his most recent paper was wrong. Identity, she argued, was the missing element that would help to explain why people--facing the same economic circumstances--would make different choices.

This was the beginning of a fourteen-year collaboration--and of Identity Economics. The authors explain how our conception of who we are and who we want to be may shape our economic lives more than any other factor, affecting how hard we work, and how we learn, spend, and save. Identity economics is a new way to understand people's decisions--at work, at school, and at home.

With it, we can better appreciate why incentives like stock options work or don't; why some schools succeed and others don't; why some cities and towns don't invest in their futures--and much, much more. Identity Economics bridges a critical gap in the social sciences. It brings identity and norms to economics.

People's notions of what is proper, and what is forbidden, and for whom, are fundamental to how hard they work, and how they learn, spend, and save. Thus people's identity--their conception of who they are, and of who they choose to be--may be the most important factor affecting their economic lives. And the limits placed by society on people's identity can also be crucial determinants of their economic well-being.

作者簡介

2001年諾貝爾經濟學獎得主喬治·阿克洛夫是加州大學伯克利分校Koshland經濟學教授。他與羅伯特?希勒合著了《動物精神:人類心理如何驅動經濟》和《為什麼它對全球資本主義很重要》。

George A. Akerlof, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, is the Koshland Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the coauthor, with Robert Shiller, of "Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy", and "Why It Matters for Global Capitalism" .