Accounting for Tastes

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Accounting for Tastes

Accounting for Tastes

Name: Accounting for Tastes
ISBN: 9780674543560

Gary S. Becker

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Economists generally accept as a given the old adage that there's no accounting for tastes. Nobel Laureate Gary Becker disagrees, and in this lively new collection he confronts the problem of preferences and values: how they are formed and how they affect our behavior. He argues that past experiences and social influences form two basic capital stocks: personal and social. He then applies these concepts to assessing the effects of advertising, the power of peer pressure, the nature of addiction, and the function of habits. This framework promises to illuminate many other realms of social life previously considered off-limits by economists.

Categories:

Business & Economics - Mathematical Economics

Year:

1996

Publisher:

Harvard University Press

Language:

english

Pages:

279

ISBN 10:

0674543564