Akerlof and Kranton on identity in economics: inverting the analysis (2007)
The concept of identity was introduced into the neoclassical utility maximising framework by Akerlof and Kranton in an analysis which draws directly from social psychology's social identity approach...
The turn in economics: neoclassical dominance to mainstream pluralism? (2006)
This paper investigates whether since the 1980s neoclassical economics has been in the process of being supplanted as the dominant research programme in economics by a collection of competing...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Polytechnic of Central London, 1983.
Atopy and wheeze in children according to parental atopy and family size.
The relationship between atopy and wheeze was examined in children, together with the possible influence on these conditions of parental atopy and family size. Children with a repeated history of...
Measuring Marginal Income Tax Rates for Indididuals in Canada: Averages and Distributions Over Time.
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The effects of Gender Control on Fertility and Children's Consumption.
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effects of preference for children of particular gender on fertility and children's welfare, with and without sex selection on "gender control".
Sraffa, Wittgenstein and Neoclassical Economics.
The intellectual interaction of Piero Sraffa and Ludwig Wittgenstei n in the late 1920s is examined. Sraffa's critical treatment of themes in Wittgenstein's Tractatus is related to the former's 1926...