Research Catalog

Title

Social dynamics / edited by Steven N. Durlauf and H. Peyton Young.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Durlauf, Steven N.
• Young, H. Peyton, 1945-

Description

x, 238 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

The essays in this book provide an overview of social economics and represent a variety of approaches, including theoretical model building, empirical studies, statistical analyses, and philosophical reflections.

Series Statement

Economic learning and social evolution

Uniform Title

MIT Press series on economic learning and social evolution.

Subject

• Social interaction
• Social interaction > Economic aspects
• Economics > Sociological aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The new social economics / Steven N. Durlauf and H. Peyton Young -- The interactions-based approach to socioeconomic behavior / Lawrence E. Blume and Steven N. Durlauf -- Policy interventions, low-level equilibria, and social interactions / Robert A. Moffitt -- Measuring social interactions / Edward L. Glaeser and José A. Scheinkman -- The dynamics of conformity / H. Peyton Young -- Individual interactions, group conflicts, and the evolution of preferences / Samuel Bowles -- The emergence of classes in a multi-agent bargaining model / Robert L. Axtell, Joshua M. Epstein, and H. Peyton Young -- The breakdown of social contracts / Ken Binmore.

ISBN

0262041863 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00064586^

OCLC

• 46500110
• SCSB-11933363

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library