Memoirs of an Unregulated Economist
Stigler, George J.
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BOOK SUMMARY
In this witty and modest intellectual autobiography, George J. Stigler gives us a fascinating glimpse into the little-known world of economics and the people who study it. One of the most distinguished economists of the twentieth century, Stigler was awar
BOOK SYNOPSIS
In this firsthand account of high-risk car and motorcycle racing in Japan, Ikuya Sato shows how affluence and consumerism have spawned various experimental and deviant life-styles among youth. Kamikaze Biker offers an intriguing look at a form of delinquency in a country traditionally thought to be devoid of social problems. Ikuya Sato's Kamikaze Biker is an exceptionally fine ethnographic analysis of a recurrent form of Japanese collective youth deviance. . . . Sato has contributed a work of value to a wide range of scholarly audiences.--Jack Katz, Contemporary Sociology A must for anyone interested in Japan, juvenile delinquency and/or youth behavior in general, or the impact of affluence on society.--Choice The volume provides a sophisticated . . . discussion of changes happening in Japanese society in the early 1980s. As such, it serves as a window on the 1990s and beyond.--Ross Mouer, Asian Studies Review Kamikaze Biker is a superlative study, one that might help liberate American social science from the simplistic notion that behavior not directly contributing to economic productivity should be summarily dismissed as 'dangerous' and 'deviant.' --Los Angeles Times Book Review
AUTHOR BIO
George J. Stigler (1911-1991) taught at the University of Chicago for more than thirty years, helping to pioneer the Chicago School of economic theory. He received the Nobel Prize for economics in 1982. He was the author of, among other books, The Theory of Price, The Intellectual and the Marketplace and Other Essays, and The Citizen and the State: Essays on Regulation.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0226774406
ISBN(13-digit): 9780226774404
Copyright: 2003
Dewey Decimal: 330.15
Library of Congress: 2002075079
Book Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 228
Paper Weight (lb): 0.55
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