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Explorations in pragmatic economics : selected papers of George A. Akerlof (and co-authors)

Akerlof, George A. - 2023

A valuable collection of papers illustrating Akerlof's 'modern', Nobel Prize-winning methodology at work. This ovlume covers the economics of information, the theory of unemployment, the demand for money, psychology and economics, and the nature of discrimination.

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James A. Mirrlees, William S. Vickrey, George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz

Vane, Howard R. (contributor) - 2010

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James A. Mirrlees, William S. Vickrey, George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz

Vane, Howard R. (contributor); Mulhearn, Chris (contributor) - 2010

', Quarterly Journal of Economics, XC (4), November, 599-617 -- George A. Akerlof (1980), 'A Theory of Social Custom, of Which … Unemployment May Be One Consequence', Quarterly Journal of Economics, XCIV (4), June, 749-7 -- George A. Akerlof (1982), 'Labor … Contracts as Partial Gift Exchange', Quarterly Journal of Economics, XCVII (4), November, 543-69 -- George A. Akerlof and Janet …

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Interview with the 2001 Laureates in Economics, George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz

Akerlof, George A.; Spence, A. Michael; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - Nobel Prize Committee - 2001

Interviewers are Professor Karl-Gustaf Lofgren and Anne-Sophie Crepin, graduate student, Umea University.

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Do Deferred Wages Dominate Involuntary Unemployment as a Worker Discipline Device?

Akerlof, George A.; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2022

In the most widely analyzed type of efficiency wage model of involuntary unemployment, firms pay wages in excess of market clearing to give workers an incentive not to shirk. Such payments in excess of market clearing and the resultant equilibrium unemployment act as a worker discipline device....

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Workers' Trust Funds and the Logic of Wage Profiles

Akerlof, George A.; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2021

This paper defines a concept, a worker's trust fund, which is useful in analyzing optimal age-earnings profiles. The trust fund represents what a worker loses if dismissed from a job for shirking. In considering whether to work or shirk, a worker weighs the potential loss due to forfeiture of...

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Waiting for Work

Akerlof, George A.; Rose, Andrew; Yellen, Janet L. - 2021

This paper explains upward job mobility and observed patterns of unemployment by skill as an economy recovers from a recession. Skilled unemployment is due to rational waiting by workers looking for long-term jobs when there is a "lock-in" effect. Lock-in occurs if the conditions in the labor...

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Грехи упущения и практика экономической науки (Sins of Omission and the Practice of Economics)

Akerlof, George A. - 2021

Russian abstract: В работе выдвигается тезис о том, что экономика как научная дисциплина отдает предпочтение жесткости (hard/hardness) в ущерб мягкости (soft/softness). Эта...

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BOOK REVIEWS - Explorations in Pragmatic Economics: Selected Papers of George A. Akerlof (and Co-authors)

Akerlof, George A.; Yariv, Leeat - In: Journal of economic literature 45 (2007) 2, pp. 429-431

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Die Stimme der Ökonomen : Wirtschaftsnobelpreisträger im Gespräch

Horn, Karen - 2012

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Bread and bullets

Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...

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Bread and bullets

Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

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Bread and bullets

Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

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Sins of omission and the practice of economics

Akerlof, George A. - In: Journal of economic literature 58 (2020) 2, pp. 405-418

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Eliminating the cyber "lemons" problem with the e-reputation in e-commerce market : theoretical model and practice

Pan, Yonghua - In: International journal of networking and virtual … 8 (2011) 3/4, pp. 182-191

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Does Akerlof and Shiller's "Animal spirits" provide a helpful new approach for macroeconomics?

Schwartz, Hugh Harold - In: The journal of socio-economics 39 (2010) 2, pp. 150-154

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Centre-state fiscal relations in India

Akerlof, George A. - In: Indian economic review : official journal of Delhi … 54 (2019) 1, pp. 215-233

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What they were thinking then : the consequences for macroeconomics during the past 60 years

Akerlof, George A. - In: The journal of economic perspectives : EP ; a journal … 33 (2019) 4, pp. 171-186

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Economics in a changed universe : Joseph E. Stiglitz, globalization, and the death of "free enterprise"

Houseman, Gerald L. - 2008

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Beetles : biased promotions and persistence of false belief

Akerlof, George A.; Michaillat, Pascal - 2017

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Beetles : Biased Promotions and Persistence of False Belief

Akerlof, George A. - 2017

This paper develops a theory of promotion based on evaluations by the already promoted. The already promoted show some favoritism toward candidates for promotion with similar beliefs, just as beetles are more prone to eat the eggs of other species. With such egg-eating bias, false beliefs may...

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Beetles : Biased Promotions and Persistence of False Belief

Akerlof, George A. - 2017

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"Marché informel": une lecture critique du modèle d'Akerlof

Boyabé, Jean-Bernard - In: Revue tiers monde 40 (1999), pp. 169-186

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Phishing for fools : Manipulation und Täuschung in der freien Marktwirtschaft

Akerlof, George A.; Shiller, Robert J. - 2016

Seit Adam Smith ist eine der zentralen Thesen der Wirtschaftswissenschaften, dass freie Märkte und freier Wettbewerb die besten Voraussetzungen für allgemeinen Wohlstand sind. Die Wirtschaftsnobelpreisträger George Akerlof und Robert Shiller argumentieren dagegen, dass Märkte nicht von sich...

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Bread and Bullets

Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

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Bread and bullets

Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

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Bread and Bullets

Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis - 2016

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Bread and Bullets

Akerlof, George A. - 2016

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Bread and Bullets

Akerlof, George A. - 2016

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Bread and bullets

Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 126 (2016) 2, pp. 58-71

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Manipulation and deception as part of a phishing equilibrium

Akerlof, George A.; Shiller, Robert J. - In: Business economics : the journal of the National … 51 (2016) 4, pp. 207-212

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Phishing for phools : the economics of manipulation and deception

Akerlof, George A.; Shiller, Robert J. - 2016 - Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only

Ever since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has been that free markets provide us with material well-being, as if by an invisible hand. In Phishing for Phools, Nobel Prize-winning economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller deliver a fundamental challenge to this insight, arguing...

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The behavioral economics of George Akerloff and Harvey Liebenstein

Frantz, Roger S. - In: The journal of socio-economics 33 (2004) 1, pp. 29-44

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Phishing for phools : the economics of manipulation and deception

Akerlof, George A.; Shiller, Robert J. - 2015

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A noble prize for asymmetric information : the economic contributions of George Akerlof, Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz

Rosser, J. Barkely - In: Review of political economy 15 (2003) 1, pp. 3-21

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Markets with asymmetric information : the contributions of George Akerlof, Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz

Löfgren, Karl-Gustaf; Persson, Torsten; Weibull, Jörgen W. - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 104 (2002) 2, pp. 195-211

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Weak and strong signals

Riley, John G. - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 104 (2002) 2, pp. 213-236

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What have we learned? : macroeconomic policy after the crisis

Akerlof, George A. (ed.); Blanchard, Olivier (ed.); … - 2014

Since 2008, economic policymakers and researchers have occupied a brave new economic world. Previous consensuses have been upended, former assumptions have been cast into doubt, and new approaches have yet to stand the test of time. Policymakers have been forced to improvise and researchers to...

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The cat in the tree and further observations : rethinking macroeconomic policy II

Akerlof, George A. - In: What have we learned? : Macroeconomic policy after the …, (pp. 317-320). 2014

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Comment on 'Household Debt in the Consumer Age : Source of Growth - Risk of Collapse' (by Barry Z. Cynamon and Steven M. Fazzari)

Akerlof, George A. - 2013

This paper is a comment on Household Debt in the Consumer Age: Source of Growth - Risk of Collapse by Barry Z. Cynamon and Steven M. Fazzari which can be found at: "http://ssrn.com/abstract=1153180" http://ssrn.com/abstract=1153180

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Identity Economics : warum wir ganz anders ticken, als die meisten Ökonomen denken

Akerlof, George A.; Kranton, Rachel E. - 2011

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Identity economics : how our identities shape our work, wages, and well-being

Akerlof, George A.; Kranton, Rachel E. - 2010

Identity Economics HOW OUR IDENTITIES SHAPE OUR WORK, WAGES, AND WELL-BEING GEORGE A. AKERLOF …

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Libro blanco de la economía del agua

Delacámara, Gonzalo (ed.); Lombardo, Francisco (ed.); … - 2017 - Tercera edición

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Beetles: biased promotions and persistence of false belief

Akerlof, George A.; Michaillat, Pascal - 2017

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Identity economics : warum wir ganz anders ticken, als die meisten Ökonomen denken

Akerlof, George A.; Kranton, Rachel E. - 2011

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

Akerlof, George A. - 2010 - Course Book

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...

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Bread and bulklet

Snower, Dennis J.; Akerlof, George A. - 2016

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Animal Spirits : wie Wirtschaft wirklich funktioniert

Akerlof, George A.; Shiller, Robert J. - 2009

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Animal Spirits : How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism

Akerlof, George A.; Shiller, Robert J. - 2010

From acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller, the case for why government is needed to restore confidence in the economyThe global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in...

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What have we learned? : Macroeconomic policy after the crisis

Akerlof, George A. (ed.); Blanchard, Olivier (contributor); … - 2014

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