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This Handbook provides an innovative study which examines the interplay between economic decisions and social behaviour in multilingual societies
It draws on the work of leading scholars from a variety of disciplines including economists, linguists and political scientists
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Linguistic Diversity: Origins and Measurement
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Front Matter
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Languages and Markets
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Front Matter
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Linguistic Policies and Economic Development
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Front Matter
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About this book
Do the languages people speak influence their economic decisions and social behavior in multilingual societies? This Handbook brings together scholars from various disciplines to examine the links and tensions between economics and language to find the delicate balance between monetary benefits and psychological costs of linguistic dynamics.
Keywords
- Economics of language
- linguistic diversity
- measurement of diversity
- ethnolinguistic fractionalization
- culture
- globalization
- minority languages
- translation
- economic development
- languages and migration
- languages and trade
- languages and emotion
- language evolution
- econometrics
- economics
- efficiency
- equilibrium
- international trade
- language and culture
- linguistics
- modeling
- multilingual
- welfare
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Editors and Affiliations
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University of Brussels, Belgium
Victor Ginsburgh
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Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA
Shlomo Weber
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Center for Study of Diversity and Social Interactions, New Economic School, Moscow, Russia
Shlomo Weber
About the editors
Shlomo Weber is Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Trustee Professor of Economics at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA, and Academic Head at the Center for the Study of Diversity and Social Interactions, New Economic School, Moscow, Russia. His areas of expertise are game theory, public and political economics. He received various prizes, including the Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize for outstanding foreign scientists and the Megagrant Prize from the Russian Ministry of Science and Education. He recently published The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Economy (2013 in English, and 2014 in Russian, co-edited with Michael Alexeev).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Language
Editors: Victor Ginsburgh, Shlomo Weber
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-32505-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-32504-4Published: 08 February 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-67307-0Published: 02 March 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-32505-1Published: 08 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 748
Topics: Historical Linguistics, Heterodox Economics, Sociolinguistics, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods