Accounting for Tastes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20430009 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gary S Becker (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Pages | 278 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Accounting for Tastes (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.4159/9780674020658 |
| OpenAlex | W1979933087 |
| ISBN | 9780674020658 |
| Open Library | OL29577328M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 227 |
Becker argues that past experiences and social influences form two basic capital stocks, personal and social, and applies these concepts to assessing the effects of advertising, the power of peer pressure, the nature of addiction, and the function of habits.
Addiction · Advertising · advertising effects · Business · Conspicuous consumption · Consumption (sociology) · Criminology · Economics · Gary Becker · Habit · Human capital · Index (typography) · Institutional economics · Microeconomics · Neoclassical economics · Peer pressure · personal capital · Personal consumption expenditures price index · Personal income · Pleasure · Positive economics · Rational choice theory (criminology) · Social capital · Social influence · Social science · Sociology · Sympathy · Taste · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Economic and Environmental Valuation · Economic Theory and Institutions · Psychology · Social Psychology · Accounting
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Chapter 10 Education and Nonmarket Outcomes
The second demographic transition
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The Endogenous Determination of Time Preference
Service logic revisited
The effects of World Heritage Sites on domestic tourism
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Hic sunt leones
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Creativity, Government and the Arts
Playing a play
Spaces between Fields
Sentimental fools
Cultural Capital
State Support and Creativity in the Arts
The Social Costs of Gambling
Public Choice Theory for Political Sociology
Latent Theoretical Convergence upon a Pluralist Conception of Economic Action
The Evolution of Cooperation in Structured Populations
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For the Public Good or Just Good Publicity? Celebrity Diplomacy and the Ethics of Representation
Optimal growth when tastes are inherited
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Anxiety and rationality
Digital inequalities among migrants in precarious situations in Italy
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Checkmating the Consumer
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| Citations per year | 7.57 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1996 - 2026 (31) |
| Highly cited | Yes |