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Autore: |
Becker Gary S (Gary Stanley), <1930->
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Titolo: |
Accounting for tastes / / Gary S. Becker
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Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1996 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (288p. ) : ill |
Disciplina: | 339.47 |
Soggetto topico: | Consumers' preferences |
Consumer behavior | |
Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects | |
Human capital | |
Note generali: | Originally published: 1996. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-258) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | Economists 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Accounting for tastes ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-674-02065-0 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910819587203321 |
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