 | United States. Commission on Population Growth and the American Future - 1973 - 742 pages
...within a vocation."* Demographically, as well, migration is a vehicle of change and adjustment. For example, it counteracts the redistributive effects...each discipline views the same phenomenon. Economic, sociologie, demographic, and other influences are all embedded in the migration episode. Each discipline,... | |
 | Harvey Leibenstein - 1978 - 200 pages
...indirectly in this model. My theory is in the spirit of James S. Duesenberry's quip that "Economics is all about how people make choices. Sociology is...all about why they don't have any choices to make." Quality is determined indirectly as a consequence of the household's reaction to its status. This seems... | |
 | Richard A. Easterlin - 2007 - 592 pages
...relative income approach to explain the consumption of child services. He has observed: "Economics is all about how people make choices. Sociology is all about why they don't have choices to make" Duesenberry (1960, p. 233). See also Anker (1974); Easterlin (1969, 1971, 1975); Freedman... | |
 | Erik Boettcher, Philipp Herder-Dorneich, Karl-Ernst Schenk - 1988 - 290 pages
...choice respectively, a difference that is ironically captured in Duesenberry's aphorism that "economics is all about how people make choices; sociology is...all about why they don't have any choices to make." Though a deliberate caricature, Duesenberry's statement captures an important aspect of the observed... | |
 | Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley - 1990 - 264 pages
...than JS Duesenberry's epigram in summarizing our objection to choice-centered RM theory: "Economics is all about how people make choices. Sociology is...all about why they don't have any choices to make." It is no accident that RM theory began in the United States, a society (1) with a free-enterprise,... | |
 | Simon Szreter - 2002 - 734 pages
...cannot be bettered as a summary of the limitations of the utility modelling approach, that 'Economics is all about how people make choices. Sociology is all about why they don't have any choices to make.'99 There are a number of differences between the utility modellers and their critics and, over... | |
 | Tony Lawson - 1997 - 388 pages
...practical problems. (ibid.: 179) 3 In fuller form Duesenberry's well-known aphorism is that 'Economics is all about how people make choices. Sociology is...all about why they don't have any choices to make.' 4 This attitude is not new of course. The Royal Economic Society Newsletter, for example, recently... | |
 | Naila Kabeer - 2002 - 484 pages
...'Rational fools' or 'cultural dopes'? Stories of structure and agency in the social sciences Economics is all about how people make choices. Sociology is...all about why they don't have any choices to make. (Duesenberry, 1960, pp. 231-234) The purely economic man is indeed close to being a social moron. Economic... | |
 | Sun-Ki Chai - 2001 - 364 pages
...two famous phrases in social science, the first being Duesenberry's observation that "... economics is all about how people make choices. Sociology is...about why they don't have any choices to make." The second is Wrong's characterization of sociological man as "oversocialized"and economic man as "undersocialized... | |
 | C. Mantzavinos, Chrysostomos Mantzavinos - 2004 - 336 pages
...statement ascribed to Duesenberry draws the boundary between economics and sociology correctly: "economics is all about how people make choices; sociology is...all about why they don't have any choices to make." Hall and Taylor, in an excellent article arguing in the same vein as Duesenberry, distinguish between... | |
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Economics," it has been said, "is all about how people make choices; sociology is all about why they don't have any choices to make. 
