Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity

Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity

This paper assesses the role of ideas in economic change, combining economic and historical analysis with insights from psychology, sociology and anthropology. Belief systems shape the system of categories ("pre-confirmatory bias") and pe...

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Main Authors:	Hoff, Karla, Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	2012
Subjects:	AFRICANS ANTHROPOLOGISTS ANTHROPOLOGY ANTIQUITY ATTENTION AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES BELIEF SYSTEMS BELIEFS BIOLOGICAL INEQUALITY BLACK BLACK MEN CHRISTIANITY CHRISTIANS CHURCH CIVIL RIGHTS CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST CIVILIZATION COGNITION COGNITIVE SCIENCE COLONIAL POWERS COLONIAL SOCIETY COLONIALISM COLONIES COLONISTS CONSTRUCTION OF RACE CREATION CULTURES DISCRIMINATION DISTRIBUTION OF POWER DOMINANT GROUP DRAMA ECONOMIC HISTORY GOD GODS HISTORICAL ANALYSIS IDEOLOGIES INDIVIDUALISM INFERIORITY IRRATIONAL BELIEFS LAND OWNERSHIP LEGISLATION LITERATURE MORALITY MORALS OPPRESSION PERCEPTION PERCEPTIONS PHILOSOPHY PREJUDICE PRINCIPLES PSYCHOLOGY RACE RACE THEORY RACES RACIAL CATEGORIES RACIAL DIFFERENCES RACIAL IDEOLOGY RACIAL INEQUALITY RACIAL SUPERIORITY RACISM RACIST RACIST SOCIETY READING RELIGIOUS IDEAS RITUALS SELF-CONFIDENCE SKIN COLOR SLAVE LABOR SLAVERY SLAVES SOCIAL CHANGE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS SOCIAL HIERARCHY SOCIAL IDENTITY SPEECH SPIRITS XENOPHOBIA
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