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Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being, George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton, Princeton University Press, vi + 185 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2011

John B. Davis
John B. Davis*
Affiliation:
University of Amsterdam and Marquette University
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Economics & Philosophy , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , November 2011 , pp. 331 - 338
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