Gigi Foster, Paul Frijters

An Economic Theory of Greed, Love, Groups, and Networks

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A groundbreaking work which presents a unified theory of human behaviour, grounded in economic thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 879g
• ISBN-13: 9781107026278
• ISBN-10: 110702627X
• Artikelnr.: 36955463

Autorenporträt

Professor Paul Frijters is a Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland. He was elected 'Best Economist under 40 in Australia' by the Economic Society of Australia for 2009-11, and his work consistently ranks in the top 4% of downloaded and cited economic research in the world. Professor Frijters has undertaken research in a wide variety of fields, including happiness and well-being, migration in China, behavioural economics and health economics. The findings of his research feature regularly in the global media.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Greed and Love: 1. Individual materialism, organizations, and power
2. Love: the missing building block
Part II. Groups, Power and the Development of Institutions: 3. Groups and power
4. Networks and markets
Part III. Implications and Examples: 5. The aggregate view
6. Theoretical appendix.