- Acknowledgments
- Part I The Effect of Social Capital on Market Behavior
- 1. The Importance of Social Interactions
- 2. Social Forces, Preferences, and Complementarity
- 3. Are Choices “Rational” When Social Capital Is Important?
- Part II The Formation of Social Capital
- 4. Sorting by Marriage
- 5. Segregation and Integration in Neighborhoods
- 6. The Social Market for the Great Masters and Other Collectibles [with William Landes]
- 7. Social Markets and the Escalation of Quality: The World of Veblen Revisited [with Edward Glaeser]
- 8. Status and Inequality [with Iván Werning]
- Part III Fads, Fashions, and Norms
- 9. Fads and Fashion
- 10. The Formation of Norms and Values
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Social Economics
Market Behavior in a Social Environment
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Publication Date: 02/28/2003
Awards & Accolades
- Gary S. Becker Is Winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economics
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