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1 online resource (295 pages) |
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Research in Experimental Economics Ser. ; v. 20 |
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Research in Experimental Economics Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; About the Editors; Introduction to Experimental Economics and Culture; 1. Introduction; 2. What is Culture?; 2.1. Defining Categories of Values and Beliefs; 2.2. Defining the Group; 3. The Importance of Culture in Economics; 3.1. Culture and Economics (Broadly); 3.2. Culture and Experimental Economics; 3.3. Experiments across Diverse Societies; 3.4. The Role of Migration; 3.5. The Role of Globalization; 3.6. Other Notable Topics; 4. Contributions to this Volume; 5. Concluding Remarks; Acknowledgments; Notes; References |
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Why Use Qualitative Methods to Study Culture in Economic Life?Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. The Drawbacks of Quantitative Approaches to Getting at Culture; 2.1. They Conceptualize Culture as a Form of Capital, Taking the Relevant Facts to Be Aggregate Statistics on Values and Beliefs; 2.2. They Try to Isolate Culture; 2.3. They Treat Culture as Homogenous; 2.4. They Treat Culture as Static; 2.5. They Usually Show Us that Culture Matters, Not How Culture Matters; 3. The Benefits of Qualitative Approaches to the Study of Culture |
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3.1. Qualitative Approaches Conceptualize Culture as a Pattern of Meanings, and, thus, Take the Relevant Data to Be People's Thoughts and Feelings3.2. They Treat the Market as a Cultural Phenomenon; 3.3. They Allow for Novel Explanations, by Being Open-ended; 3.4. But, Qualitative Approaches Aren't Perfect; 3.5. Experimentalists Can Incorporate Qualitative Approaches into Their Analysis; 4. Conclusion; Notes; References; A Note on Qualitative Methods in Experimental Economics; Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. Post-experiment Interview; 3. Conducting a Qualitative Post-experiment Interview |
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4. Language as Data5. Classification of Natural Messages; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgment; Notes; References; Culture as a Configuration of Values: An Archetypal Perspective; Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. What is Culture?; 3. Culture Archetypes; 4. How to Identify Archetypes From Data? the Archetypal Analysis Method; 4.1 Archetypal Analysis; 4.2. The AA Algorithm; 4.3. Determining the Number of Archetypes; 4.4. Associating Individual Cases with Archetypes; 4.5. Comparison of AA with Other Methods; 4.6. Advantages and Limitations of AA in Comparison with Other Methods |
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5. Illustration of Archetypal Analysis: Schwartz Values in the World Values Survey Wave Five5.1. The World Values Survey; 5.2. The Schwartz Values Model; 5.3. Measurement of Schwartz Values in the WVS Wave Five; 6. Results and Discussion; 6.1. Linking Archetypes with Other Characteristics; 7. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Cultural Values and Behavior in Dictator, Ultimatum, and Trust Games: An Experimental Study; Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. General Cultural Frameworks and Economics; 3. The Grid-group Model; 4. Operationalizing Grid and Group |
| Summary |
The contributions in this volume discuss new approaches to the measurement of culture and how to conceptualize and define values and beliefs and the groups that share them, and they contribute to the growing body of literature that documents how cultural differences in social and economic behavior |
| Notes |
4.1. Implications of Grid and Group for Behavior in Anonymous Interaction |
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Print version record |
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Economics -- Psychological aspects.
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Culture -- Economic aspects
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Economics, finance, business & management.
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Business & Economics -- General.
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Culture -- Economic aspects
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Economics -- Psychological aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Norton, Douglas A
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| ISBN |
9781787439894 |
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1787439895 |
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9781787438194 |
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1787438198 |
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