Accounting for Tastes

Gary S. Becker

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$35.00 • £28.95 • €31.50

ISBN 9780674543577

Publication Date: 03/30/1998

Short

292 pages

14 line illustrations

World

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Part I: Personal Capital
- 1. Preferences and Values
- 2. De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum
- 3. A Theory of Rational Addiction
- 4. Rational Addiction and the Effect of Price on Consumption
- 5. An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction
- 6. Habits, Addictions, and Traditions
Part 2: Social Capital
- 7. The Economic Way of Looking at Life
- 8. A Theory of Social Interactions
- 9. A Note on Restaurant Pricing and Other Examples of Social Influences on Price
- 10. A Simple Theory of Advertising as a Good or Bad
- 11. Norms and the Formation of Preferences
- 12. Spouses and Beggars: Love and Sympathy
Acknowledgments
References
Index

Awards & Accolades

Gary S. Becker Is Winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economics

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