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049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aFrank, Robert H.
245 10 $aChoosing the right pond :$bhuman behavior and the quest for status /$cRobert H. Frank.
260 $aNew York ;$aOxford [Oxfordshire] :$bOxford University Press,$c1985.
300 $ax, 306 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 281-293) and index.
505 2 $aContests, leagues, and rules -- Local status -- Choosing the right pond -- How much is local status worth? -- Further indications of the value of local status -- Why redistributive taxation -- The positional treadmill -- Collective protection of inconspicuous consumption -- The left's critique of capitalism -- Why do ethical systems try to limit the role of money? -- Freedom of association, economies of scale, and the limits of government paternalism -- The libertarian welfare state.
520 $aIs money the major factor in shaping the marketplace? Is salary the prime consideration in job satisfaction? Not necessarily, according to Robert Frank. Economists, Frank charges, have refused to treat people as people, and consequently they have painted a distorted picture of the marketplace. Economists have too often neglected fundamental elements of human nature and therefore have failed to ask many obviously important questions and have offered wrong or at best misleading answers to the questions they do ask. This challenging and provocative book offers an alternative to the prevailing view of human beings as economic automatons. Individual desires--notably the quest for status--profoundly affect the marketplace. "Status concerns play dominant roles in many of the most important private transactions and underlie much of the regulatory apparatus we observe in the modern welfare state," Frank writes. The book offers a radical reinterpretation of what private markets can and cannot do and suggests new ways of looking at familiar regulations and social programs. Many of the issues discussed touch directly upon the strongest concerns we feel as human beings struggling to define our roles and affirm our importance in the world around us. -- Amazon.com.
590 $bInternet Archive - 2
590 $bInternet Archive 2
650 0 $aEconomics.
650 0 $aWelfare economics.
650 0 $aWages.
650 0 $aSocial status.
650 4 $aEconomía del bienestar.
650 4 $aSueldos y salarios.
650 6 $aÉconomie politique.
650 6 $aÉconomie du bien-être.
650 6 $aSalaires.
650 6 $aStatut social.
650 7 $aEconomics.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00902116
650 7 $aSocial status.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01123359
650 7 $aWages.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01169492
650 7 $aWelfare economics.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01173620
650 7 $aEinkommensverteilung$2gnd
650 7 $aSozialstatus$2gnd
650 7 $aWohlfahrt$2gnd
650 7 $aWohlfahrtstheorie$2gnd
650 17 $aSociale status.$2gtt
650 17 $aEconomische aspecten.$2gtt
653 $aSocial status$aEconomic aspects
776 08 $iOnline version:$aFrank, Robert H.$tChoosing the right pond.$dNew York ; Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Oxford University Press, 1985$w(OCoLC)558152604
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0639/84019099-d.html
856 42 $3French equivalent / Équivalent français$uhttps://bac-lac.on.worldcat.org/oclc/299395477
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