03315nam 2200649Ia 450 991045519130332120200520144314.00-674-02065-010.4159/9780674020658(CKB)1000000000805645(StDuBDS)AH23050589(SSID)ssj0000096556(PQKBManifestationID)11137903(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000096556(PQKBWorkID)10081886(PQKB)10962668(MiAaPQ)EBC3300718(Au-PeEL)EBL3300718(CaPaEBR)ebr10331304(OCoLC)923117009(DE-B1597)574431(DE-B1597)9780674020658(EXLCZ)99100000000080564519951122d1996 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrAccounting for tastes[electronic resource] /Gary S. BeckerCambridge, MA Harvard University Press19961 online resource (288p. )illOriginally published: 1996.0-674-54356-4 0-674-54357-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-258) and index.Part I: Personal Capital 1. Preferences and Values De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum A Theory of Rational Addiction Rational Addiction and the Effect of Price on Consumption An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction Habits, Addictions, and Traditions Part 2: Social Capital The Economic Way of Looking at Life A Theory of Social Interactions A Note on Restaurant Pricing and Other Examples of Social Influences on Price A Simple Theory of Advertising as a Good or Bad Norms and the Formation of Preferences Spouses and Beggars: Love and Sympathy Acknowledgments References IndexEconomists generally accept as given the old adage that there's no accounting for taste. Nobel Laureate Gary Becker disagrees, and in this collection confronts the problem of preferences and values.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.Consumers' preferencesConsumer behaviorConsumption (Economics)Social aspectsHuman capitalElectronic books.Consumers' preferences.Consumer behavior.Consumption (Economics)Social aspects.Human capital.339.47Becker Gary S(Gary Stanley),1930-118957MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455191303321Accounting for tastes25695UNINA03809nam 22006374a 450 991045184360332120200520144314.01-281-15135-197866111513550-8135-4140-910.36019/9780813541402(CKB)1000000000483384(EBL)328681(OCoLC)476126510(SSID)ssj0000111394(PQKBManifestationID)11139354(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000111394(PQKBWorkID)10095928(PQKB)10909672(DE-B1597)530183(OCoLC)191680099(DE-B1597)9780813541402(MiAaPQ)EBC328681(EXLCZ)99100000000048338420070104d2007 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrBig prisons, big dreams crime and the failure of America's penal system /Michael J. Lynch1st ed.New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Pressc20071 online resource (274 p.)Critical issues in crime and societyDescription based upon print version of record.0-8135-4185-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-251) and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface --Chapter 1. Introduction: Big, Dark Secrets and America's Prison System --Chapter 2. Prisons and Crime --Chapter 3. The Growth of America's Prison System --Chapter 4. Raising Questions About America's Big Prison System --Chapter 5. Explaining Prison Growth in the United States: The Materialist Perspective --Chapter 6. Prison Effects: Who Gets Locked Up --Chapter 7. The Imprisonment Binge and Crime --Chapter 8. The End of Oil and the Future of American Prisons? --Chapter 9. A Consuming Culture --Notes --References --Index --About the AuthorThe American prison system has grown tenfold since the 1970's, but crime rates in the United States have not decreased. This doesn't surprise Michael J. Lynch, a critical criminologist, who argues that our oversized prison system is a product of our consumer culture, the public's inaccurate beliefs about controlling crime, and the government's criminalizing of the poor. While deterrence and incapacitation theories suggest that imprisoning more criminals and punishing them leads to a reduction in crime, case studies, such as one focusing on the New York City jail system between 1993 and 2003, show that a reduction in crime is unrelated to the size of jail populations. Although we are locking away more people, Lynch explains that we are not targeting the worst offenders. Prison populations are comprised of the poor, and many are incarcerated for relatively minor robberies and violence. America's prison expansion focused on this group to the exclusion of corporate and white collar offenders who create hazardous workplace and environmental conditions that lead to deaths and injuries, and enormous economic crimes. If America truly wants to reduce crime, Lynch urges readers to rethink cultural values that equate bigger with better.Critical issues in crime and society.CriminalsRehabilitationUnited StatesImprisonmentUnited StatesCriminal justice, Administration ofUnited StatesCriminalsRehabilitationImprisonmentCriminal justice, Administration of365/.973Lynch Michael J787004MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451843603321Big prisons, big dreams4191347UNINA