Under the Influence (eBook)

Putting Peer Pressure to Work

Robert H. Frank (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2021
320 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23271-3 (ISBN)

Infos

From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, bold new ideas for creating environments that promise a brighter futurePsychologists have long understood that social environments profoundly shape our behavior, sometimes for the better, often for the worse. But social influence is a two-way street-our environments are themselves products of our behavior. Under the Influence explains how to unlock the latent power of social context. It reveals how our environments encourage smoking, bullying, tax cheating, sexual predation, problem drinking, and wasteful energy use. We are building bigger houses, driving heavier cars, and engaging in a host of other activities that threaten the planet-mainly because that's what friends and neighbors do.In the wake of the hottest years on record, only robust measures to curb greenhouse gases promise relief from more frequent and intense storms, droughts, flooding, wildfires, and famines. Robert Frank describes how the strongest predictor of our willingness to support climate-friendly policies, install solar panels, or buy an electric car is the number of people we know who have already done so. In the face of stakes that could not be higher, the book explains how we could redirect trillions of dollars annually in support of carbon-free energy sources, all without requiring painful sacrifices from anyone.Most of us would agree that we need to take responsibility for our own choices, but with more supportive social environments, each of us is more likely to make choices that benefit everyone. Under the Influence shows how.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.10.2021
• Vorwort: Robert H. Frank
• Zusatzinfo: 32 b/w illus. 2 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
• Schlagworte: Absolute Advantage • acid rain • Adoption • Adult • Agriculture • alarmism • Andrew Sullivan • asymmetry • awareness • balanced budget • Behavior • Behavioral contagion • Behavioral Economics • beneficiary • Beneficiary (trust) • bidding • Carbon Capture and Storage • Carbon dioxide • Carbon neutrality • Carbon Tax • Career • chairman • climate change • Collective Action • Commuting • conservation movement • Consumer behaviour • consumer choice • Consumption (Economics) • Consumption Tax • contentious politics • cost reduction • Criticism • Current Income • demise • Denialism • Department Store • Directory assistance • disaster • Disposable and discretionary income • Domestic worker • Drinking • Drought • Economic cost • Economic Inequality • Economics • economist • Effectiveness • Electrical Grid • Electric Vehicle • Employment • environmental protection • Explanation • Externality • Facial (sex act) • Financial crisis of 2007–08 • Financial Distress • Finding • Funding • global warming • good faith • Greenhouse Gas • Green New Deal • Hindsight Bias • Identity politics • Illustration • imposition • Incentive • income • Income Tax • Infrastructure • Investment • James Hansen • labour law • Laissez-faire • Life Satisfaction • Literature • Make a Difference • Measures of national income and output • Member State • Moral Reasoning • Myopia • nanny state • Neoliberalism • New York University • Nonprofit Organization • Obesity • Our Choice • Paycheck • Peace Corps • Peer Group • Percentage point • pessimism • Pew Research Center • physical quantity • Pigovian Tax • Plain language • Plug-in Electric Vehicle • political spectrum • political strategy • pollution • Population Growth • Prediction • Premarital sex • private sector • progressive tax • Proportion (architecture) • Publication • Public Policy • purchasing power • Rationality • Rebate (marketing) • Requirement • result • Revenue • Root Cause • Rule Of Thumb • sadness • salary • saving • Scientific Literature • Self-Interest • seriousness • shortage • shortfall • Sincerity • Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon • skepticism • small number • Social Movement • Social Security System (Philippines) • Solar Panel • Stanley Milgram • Status Quo • Sumptuary law • supermarket • Tax • Tax Cut • Tax evasion • Taxis • Taxpayer • Tax Rate • Tax resistance • tax revenue • Terminology • Textbook • The Power of Habit • To this Day • Trade-off • Transgender • Transportation Sector • Truth • walkability • Weber–Fechner law • well-being • Western United States • will durant • Word salad • World Population • Youth • Zillow
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23271-7 / 0691232717
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23271-3 / 9780691232713