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

by George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton

Book Overview

How identity influences the economic choices we make

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691152551
• ISBN13: 9780691152554
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.9"