Social Economics Reading List

Cultural Economics
* Bisin & Verdien papers
* Guiso, Sapienza & Zingales papers
* Tabellini (2008) QJE
* See session from LSE political econ course
Norms
* Bicchieri work, Eugen Dimant
Social Capital
* Durlauf (1999), case against
Institutions
* Douglas North
* Williamson
Network Economics
Evolutionary Theory/Human Behavioral Ecology/Sociobiology/Gene-economics (recent stuff)
* O.E. Williamson (1978)
Collective action
* Ostrom; commons
* Mancur Olson
Trust
Not sure how to classify:
* Benabou & Tirole papers
* Becker & Murphy (2003): Social Economics
* Becker (1974), Becker (1996)
* Robert Axelrod (1981, 1984): Evolution of cooperation
* George Akerlof papers, identity
* Robert Boyd: cooperation
* Bowles & Gintis (2011), Bowles (2016), papers
* Bursztyn papers
* John Elster: books/papers
* Ernst Fehr
* Avner Greif; long-run cultural effects, reputation and cooperation
* Douglas North on institutions
* Stephen Morris (2000) contagion
* Richard Posner, norms and laws
* Herbert Simon; altruism
* Peyton Young
* Veblen; Theory of the Leisure Class