The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life - Softcover

List, John; Gneezy, Uri

 
9781847946751: The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1847946755 ISBN 13: 9781847946751
Verlag: Random House Books, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

Based on groundbreaking original research, The Why Axis is a colourful examination of why people do what they do - and how effective incentives can spur people to change their behaviour and achieve more. Uri Gneezy and John List are a little like the anthropologists who spend months in the field studying people in their native environments. But rather than acting as impartial observers, these two intrepid economists have set out to study the ways people act in order to try to solve major problems in society, such as the gap between rich and poor students and the violence plaguing inner city schools; the real reasons people discriminate; and the continuing pay disparity between men and women. Their field experiments in the factories, communities, and shops where real people live, work, and play show how incentives can change outcomes. Their results will change the way you think about and take action on both small and large problems, and force us as a society to stop making assumptions and to rely instead upon the evidence of what really works.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Uri Gneezy is the Arthur Brody Endowed Chair in Behavioral Economics and Professor of Economics and Strategy at the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego. He has also been on the faculties of the University of Chicago, Israel's Technion, and the University of Haifa. John List is the Homer J. Livingston Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. He has been a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics (NBER) for more than decade and served as senior economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisors for environmental and resource economics.

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Verlag
Random House Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1847946755
ISBN 13 
9781847946751
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
288
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