George Akerlof

Identity and Economics

Thursday, 21 August 2008
14:50 - 15:30 CEST

Abstract

This talk will survey the speaker’s manuscript, Economics and Identity, with Rachel Kranton. It will cover identity and the economics of organization, identity and the economics of schooling, identity and the economics of minority poverty, identity and gender in the home and in the work place, and identity and macroeconomics, as time permits.

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