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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press ; Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2001.
Description:	x, 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Economic learning and social evolution MIT Press series on economic learning and social evolution.
Subject:	Social interaction. Social interaction -- Economic aspects. Economics -- Sociological aspects. Social sciences -- Research. Economics -- Sociological aspects. Social interaction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4437395

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Other authors / contributors:	Durlauf, Steven N. Young, H. Peyton, 1945- Brookings Institution.
ISBN:	0262041863
Notes:	On front of dust jacket: Brookings Institution Includes bibliographical references and index. "[M]ade possible by grants from the Alex C. Walker Educational and Charitable Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation" -- t.p. verso

Table of Contents:

Series Foreword
Preface
1. The New Social Economics
2. The Interactions-Based Approach to Socioeconomic Behavior
3. Policy Intervention, Low-Level Equilibria, and Social Interactions
4. Measuring Social Interactions
5. The Dynamics of Conformity
6. Individual Interactions, Group Conflicts, and the Evolution of Preferences
7. The Emergence of Classes in a Multi-Agent Bargaining Model
8. The Breakdown of Social Contracts
Index