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Identity Economics is an accessible account of rigorous and highly original work by outstanding economists. Standard economics has embarrassingly little to say about the crises engulfing Western societies, failing to predict the financial crisis and silent on the mounting social crisis. Identity Economics provides a manageable approach to addressing such issues: it restores economics as a social science while retaining a framework in which economic tools are applied.
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Akerlof, G. A., & Kranton, R. E. (2010). Identity economics. How our identities shape our work, wages, and well-being. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
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Collier, P. (2019). Sir Paul Collier Recommends “Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being” by George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton. In: Frey, B., Schaltegger, C. (eds) 21st Century Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17740-9_11
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