Bread and Bullets

Arbeitspapier

Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities; defining power relations; and establishing and conveying social norms. This paper describes the role narratives play in decision making, as it also juxtaposes this description against the backdrop of the Bolshevik-spawned narrative that played a critical role in the history of Russia and the Soviet Union in the 20th Century.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9701

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines ; Relation of Economics to Social Values ; Sociology of Economics ; Microeconomic Policy: Formulation, Implementation, and Evaluation ; Production and Organizations: General ; Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights ; Distribution: General ; Externalities ; Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations ; Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior ; Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions ; Institutions and the Macroeconomy
• Thema: narrative ; motivation ; attention ; prediction ; identity ; social assignment

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Akerlof, George A. ; Snower, Dennis J.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2016

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/141460
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 20.09.2024, 08:22 MESZ