乔治·阿克洛夫：经济理论家故事书（诺贝尔经济学奖） An Economic Theorist's Book of Tales

基本信息

Format: Paperback| 208 pages  

Dimensions: 152x 228x 15mm| 248g  

Publication date: 28 Jan 2006 

Publisher: Cambridge University Press  

Publication City/Country: Cambridge, United Kingdom 

Language: English 

Illustrations note: Worked examples or Exercises 

ISBN10: 0521269334 

ISBN13: 9780521269339 

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

这些文章探讨了当一个熟练的经济学家做出非传统的假设时会发生什么。经济理论传统上依赖于一套默契的、"经典的 "假设，这些假设逐渐获得了自己的生命，决定了经济学家的写作方式以及他们如何证明经济模型。同样，这些假设也获得了一种自主的特性：它们指导着经济学家思考世界的方式。

因此，对其他假设的考虑已经成为禁忌。这些文章在实质上和风格上都很新颖，因为它们打破了这些禁忌，将新的假设带入经济理论。这些论文将这种冒险的方法应用于广泛的问题--从保险市场和不发达国家的贸易到失业和歧视。

其中一些文章推导出昂贵的不对称信息对经济市场的影响。其他文章则探讨了其他社会科学，如人类学、心理学和社会学的研究成果。

These essays explore what happens when a skilful economist makes unconventional assumptions. Economic theory has traditionally relied upon a tacit and 'classical' set of assumptions that have gradually acquired a life of their own in defining how economists write and how they justify economic models. Similarly, these assumptions have acquired an autonomous character: they guide the way economists think about the world.

In consequence, consideration of alternative assumptions has become taboo. These essays are substantively and stylistically novel because they break these taboos and bring new assumptions into economic theory. The papers apply this adventurous approach to a wide range of issues - from insurance markets and trade in underdeveloped countries to unemployment and discrimination.

Some of the essays derive the implications for economic markets of costly asymmetric information. Others explore the findings of other social sciences such as anthropology, psychology and sociology.

作者简介

乔治-阿瑟-阿克洛夫，出生于美国康涅狄格州的纽黑文，是一位经济学家，加州大学伯克利分校的经济学教授。他与迈克尔-斯彭斯和约瑟夫-斯蒂格利茨一起被授予2001年诺贝尔经济学奖。

George Arthur Akerlof, born in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, is an economist and professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics together with Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz.