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Edited by Mark Casson, Professor of Economics and Director, Centre for Economic Institutions and Business History, University of Reading, UK<i>'The two volumes are a welcome source for all interested in the rather successful but somewhat limited and sometimes problematic rational choice approach usually applied by economists (and since some time also by political scientists, sociologists and legal scholars). The reader will find many until now widely dispersed articles, which not only address the application of this method to other subjects than the market economy, but also its shortcomings, and which try to rectify them by widening or transforming it. Thus the two volumes can be strongly recommended. . .'</i>
- Peter Bernholz, Kyklos,
The first volume focuses on modelling the social and cultural aspects of an individual's behaviour. In the second volume this theme develops to consider cooperation in the economic system and the role of culture in supporting this system.
The articles in these volumes explore a diverse range of issues including:
- the differences in achievements between ethnic groups
- the differences between firms from different countries
- the links between religion, community, ethnicity and economic performance.
- the influences of leadership, peer pressure, entrepreneurship, envy, status-seeking and self esteem.