Just as we learn from, influence, and are influenced by others, our social interactions drive economic growth in cities … Neighborhoods to Nations synthesizes the recent economics of social interactions for anyone seeking to understand the contributions … economists use to investigate social interactions, and he shows how a familiarity with these tools is essential for interpreting …

At the center of the upheavals brought by emancipation in the American South was the economic and social transition … behavior and social status of former slaves, Freedmen's Bureau agents, planters, merchants, and politicians, among others …

assessing the long-term growth of societies. Using a groundbreaking numerical index of social development that compares … United Nations' approach for measuring human development, Morris's index breaks social development into four traits …, present, and future economic and social trends. …

Gintis shows that just as game theory without broader social theory is merely technical bravado, so social theory without …

Incentives Right explains how law might better serve the social good. In tort law, Robert Cooter and Ariel Porat propose that all …

social norms, economic outcomes for women remain markedly worse than for men. Drawing on insights from feminism …

many people have less of it, there are more forms and systems of money, from local currencies and social lending to mobile … money and Bitcoin. Yet our understanding of what money is—and what it might be—hasn’t kept pace. In The Social Life of Money … or subvert government-sanctioned currencies? To answer such questions, The Social Life of Money takes a fresh and wide …

? More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid class structures have eroded in favor of greater social … equality, The Son Also Rises proves that movement on the social ladder has changed little over eight centuries. Using a novel … technique—tracking family names over generations to measure social mobility across countries and periods—renowned economic …

social systems and social theory. Unfortunately, economists’ policy models have not kept up and are stuck in either a market …, through new institutional structures such as for-benefit corporations, channel individuals’ social instincts into solving … complexity framework is to foster an ecostructure within which diverse forms of social entrepreneurship can emerge and blossom. …