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Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach To Societal Rigidity
Hoff, Karla - 2010
This paper assesses the role of ideas in economic change, combining economic and historical analysis with insights from psychology, sociology and anthropology. Belief systems shape the system of categories ("pre-confirmatory bias") and perceptions (confirmatory bias), and are themselves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394513
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Equilibrium fictions : a cognitive approach to societal rigidity
Hoff, Karla Ruth; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003942040
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Equilibrium fictions : a cognitive approach to societal rigidity
Hoff, Karla Ruth; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - In: The American economic review 100 (2010) 2, pp. 141-146
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008748575
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Equilibrium fictions : a cognitive approach to societal rigidity
Hoff, Karla Ruth; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003951817
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Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity
Hoff, Karla - 2017
This paper assesses the role of ideas in economic change, combining economic and historical analysis with insights from psychology, sociology and anthropology. Belief systems shape the system of categories ( "pre-confirmatory bias" ) and perceptions (confirmatory bias), and are themselves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976669
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Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity
Hoff, Karla - 2010
This paper assesses the role of ideas in economic change, combining economic and historical analysis with insights from psychology, sociology and anthropology. Belief systems shape the system of categories ("pre-confirmatory bias") and perceptions (confirmatory bias), and are themselves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462860
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Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity
Hoff, Karla; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2012
This paper assesses the role of ideas in economic change, combining economic and historical analysis with insights from psychology, sociology and anthropology. Belief systems shape the system of categories ("pre-confirmatory bias") and perceptions (confirmatory bias), and are themselves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012551438
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Equilibrium Fictions : a Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity
Hoff, Karla - 2010
This paper assesses the role of ideas in economic change, combining economic and historical analysis with insights from psychology, sociology and anthropology. Belief systems shape the system of categories ("pre-confirmatory bias") and perceptions (confirmatory bias), and are themselves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147216
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Tracking under-reported financial flows : China’s development finance and the aid-conflict nexus revisited
Strange, Austin M.; Parks, Bradley; Tierney, Michael J.; … - 2015
on 1,511 projects to 50 African countries. We use this database to extend previous research on aid and conflict, which … withdrawals of "traditional" aid no longer induce conflict in the presence of sufficient alternative funding from China. Our … better understand the link between aid and conflict. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010526723
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Civil strife and economic and social policies
Stiglitz, Joseph E. - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 1 (2006) 1, pp. 6-9
incomplete information (both sides believing they can "win," when one – and possibly both – must "lose"). Reasons for conflict … article then draws out six implications for those interested in conflict management and conflict mitigation and comments, for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941228