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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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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.
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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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Linguistic Policies and Economic Development
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Reviews
“This volume is clearly an important contribution to the literature on the economics of language. It is comprehensive: the topics cover the full range of issues that we would want to see addressed. … While few will want to read it from cover to cover, those with even a passing interest in the nexus of language and economics, regardless of their own discipline, will find individual chapters invaluable.” (Barry R. Chiswick, Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 54 (3), September, 2016)
Editors and affiliations
About the editors
Victor Ginsburgh is Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of Brussels, Belgium. He is an author and editor of numerous books and has published papers in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior and other leading journals. His most recent publications include the Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture (2006 and 2013, co-edited with David Throsby) and How Many Languages Do We Need? (2011, with Shlomo Weber).
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).
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).
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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
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
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
