Identity Economics 2016: Where Do Social Distinctions and Norms Come From?
探讨身份经济学中社会区分与规范的来源，分析个体、家庭、学校、政府和社会运动如何塑造身份，旨在为行为与制度提供更稳健的解释和政策预测。
Identity economics provides a framework to analyze economic outcomes by establishing people's identities--not just pecuniary incentives--as primary motivations for choice. The heart of the framework is social difference and norms. This paper engages the emerging economic research into sources of divisions and norms: individuals, families, schools, governments, and social movements. The task at hand is to further to develop the micro-foundations of identity, in order to build a socially framed understandings of human motivation that will yield more robust accounts of behavior and institutions and yet better predictions of the implications of policy.