From Neighborhoods to Nations (eBook)

The Economics of Social Interactions

Yannis Ioannides (Autor)

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2012
544 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4538-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Just as we learn from, influence, and are influenced by others, our social interactions drive economic growth in cities, regions, and nations--determining where households live, how children learn, and what cities and firms produce. From Neighborhoods to Nations synthesizes the recent economics of social interactions for anyone seeking to understand the contributions of this important area. Integrating theory and empirics, Yannis Ioannides explores theoretical and empirical tools that economists use to investigate social interactions, and he shows how a familiarity with these tools is essential for interpreting findings. The book makes work in the economics of social interactions accessible to other social scientists, including sociologists, political scientists, and urban planning and policy researchers. Focusing on individual and household location decisions in the presence of interactions, Ioannides shows how research on cities and neighborhoods can explain communities' composition and spatial form, as well as changes in productivity, industrial specialization, urban expansion, and national growth. The author examines how researchers address the challenge of separating personal, social, and cultural forces from economic ones. Ioannides provides a toolkit for the next generation of inquiry, and he argues that quantifying the impact of social interactions in specific contexts is essential for grasping their scope and use in informing policy. Revealing how empirical work on social interactions enriches our understanding of cities as engines of innovation and economic growth, From Neighborhoods to Nations carries ramifications throughout the social sciences and beyond.

Autor

Yannis M. Ioannides is the Max and Herta Neubauer Professor of Economics at Tufts University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.10.2012
• Zusatzinfo: 14 line illus. 7 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
• Schlagworte: Addition • Adjacency Matrix • Agglomeration • AlonsoЍillsЍuth model • amenity • American Housing Survey • Archipelago • autarkic cities • autarky • Business Cycle • Capital Accumulation • Census Tract • Centrality • Central Place Theory • City • city geometry • city size • city size distribution • coefficient • Community • community choice • Competitive equilibrium • contextual effects • Cost curve • Covariance • Cumulative distribution function • data set • Decisions • Determinant • Discrete Choice • Diversification • Diversification (finance) • Duranton model • Econometrics • Economic equilibrium • Economic Geography • Economic Growth • Economic Integration • Economic Rent • Economics • economist • economy • Elasticity of substitution • Empirics • Employment • Endogeneity (econometrics) • Endogenous Growth Theory • estimation • Externality • Finding • firms • Free entry • General Equilibrium Theory • Geography • Geometric Brownian motion • Gibrat's law • graph theory • Hedonic regression • hierarchy principle • Household • Housing • Human Capital • human capital spillovers • income • income distribution • Indirect utility function • industrial specialization • inference • Interaction (statistics) • intercity trade • interdependence • Isoelastic function • job matching • Joint probability distribution • labor demand • Labor Market Frictions • Likelihood Function • Localization • Location Decisions • Location model • logarithm • LucasВossi-Hansberg model • Marginal cost • Market Economy • Market tightness • microneighborhood • neighborhood • neighborhood choice • Neighborhood effects • Neighbourhood effect • opportunity cost • Panel Data • Parameter • percentage • Physical Capital • Physical space • population density • power law • Prediction • Price index • Probability • Production Function • Productivity • Quantity • racial preferences • Random Variable • Real estate appraisal • Requirement • residence • risk pooling • Scale In • site rents • social effects • Social interactions • social learning • Social Networks • social relation • Social Science • Social Structure • spatial aggregation • spatial clustering • Spatial distribution • Spatial econometrics • spatial economic activity • Spatial Equilibrium • spatial interactions • Spatial Structure • Special case • statistical significance • Supply (economics) • synthetic neighborhood • Tax • Technology • Thomas Schelling • Total Factor Productivity • Trade-off • Underpinning • Unemployment • urban agglomeration • urban archipelago • Urban Density • Urban Economics • Urban Economy • Urban Evolution • Urban Expansion • urban externalities • Urban growth • urban infrastructure • urbanization • urban networks • urban planning • urban social fabric • urban spatial structure • urban specialization • urban sprawl • Urban Structure • Urban Transition • Urban Transportation • urban wage premium • Utility • Variance • wage • Zipf's law
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4538-6 / 1400845386
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4538-5 / 9781400845385