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LIT-1752: Economics and Identity

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StatusActive — read in full 2026-10-29 (NOTE-1311) from the journal's typeset text deposited in Duke University's repository DukeSpace (hdl.handle.net/10161/1993; Unpaywall labels it the submitted version, but it carries the journal's pagination and copyright line), fetched through the repository's own API; worth reading as the founding statement of identity economics: identity as self-image in the utility function, with prescriptions and identity externalities, applied to gender at work, exclusion and the household. Read it knowing that its evidence is illustrative, that two of its models are solved only in appendices "available from the authors upon request", and that the self it puts in utility is a self-image to be kept, not a self that takes in the group's welfare.
Tagssocial-identity, social-science, altruism
Cited as “paper” byNOTE-1311 — Economics and Identity

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Akerlof, G. A. & Kranton, R. E. (2000). Quarterly Journal of Economics, 115(3), 715–753.

Read in full in NOTE-1311, from the journal’s typeset text deposited in Duke University’s repository DukeSpace (hdl.handle.net/10161/1993; Unpaywall labels it the submitted version, but it carries the journal’s pagination and copyright line), fetched through the repository’s own API.

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An economist’s version of the owner’s thesis (CLAIM-491): group-conforming action is utility-maximizing once identity is counted.

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