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The Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Language

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Editors:
  1. Victor Ginsburgh

    1. University of Brussels, Belgium

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  2. Shlomo Weber

    1. Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA
      Center for Study of Diversity and Social Interactions, New Economic School, Moscow, Russia

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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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Victor Ginsburgh, Shlomo Weber
      Pages 1-13

  3. Linguistic Diversity: Origins and Measurement

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Linguistic Theory, Linguistic Diversity and Whorfian Economics

      • Nigel Fabb
      Pages 17-60

    3. Dynamic Models of Language Evolution: The Linguistic Perspective

      • Andrew D. M. Smith
      Pages 61-100

    4. Dynamic Models of Language Evolution: The Economic Perspective

      • Andrew John
      Pages 101-120

    5. What Do We Learn from Neurolinguistics?

      • Mark Leikin
      Pages 121-136

    6. Linguistic Distances and Ethnolinguistic Fractionalization and Disenfranchisement Indices

      • Victor Ginsburgh, Shlomo Weber
      Pages 137-173

    7. Ancestry, Language and Culture

      • Enrico Spolaore, Romain Wacziarg
      Pages 174-211

    8. Language Learning and Communicative Benefits

      • Efthymios Athanasiou, Juan D. Moreno-Ternero, Shlomo Weber
      Pages 212-230

    9. Language and Emotion

      • Niall Bond, Victor Ginsburgh
      Pages 231-260

  4. Languages and Markets

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 261-261
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    2. Common Spoken Languages and International Trade

      • Peter H. Egger, Farid Toubal
      Pages 263-289

    3. Economic Exchange and Business Language in the Ancient World: An Exploratory Review

      • Nigel Holden
      Pages 290-311

    4. Language Use in Multinational Corporations: The Role of Special Languages and Corporate Idiolects

      • Susanne Tietze, Nigel Holden, Wilhelm Barner-Rasmussen
      Pages 312-341

    5. Language and Migration

      • Alícia Adserà, Mariola Pytliková
      Pages 342-372

    6. Translation: Economic and Sociological Perspectives

      • Johan Heilbron, Gisèle Sapiro
      Pages 373-402

    7. Languages, Fees and the International Scope of Patenting

      • Dietmar Harhoff, Karin Hoisl, Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Charlotte Vandeput
      Pages 403-422

  5. Linguistic Policies and Economic Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 423-423
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    2. Linguistic Cleavages and Economic Development

      • Klaus Desmet, Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín, Romain Wacziarg
      Pages 425-446
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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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 “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

  • University of Brussels, Belgium

    Victor Ginsburgh

  • Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA

    Shlomo Weber

  • Center for Study of Diversity and Social Interactions, New Economic School, Moscow, Russia

    Shlomo Weber

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).

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