The Palgrave handbook of economics and language / edited by Victor Ginsburgh, Shlomo Weber

Published:: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Physical Description:: xxiii, 748 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Additional Creators:: Ginsburgh, Victor and Weber, Shlomo

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Linguistic Theory, Linguistic Diversity and Whorfian Economics / Nigel Fabb -- Dynamic Models of Language Evolution : The Linguistic Perspective / Andrew D.M. Smith -- Dynamic Models of Language Evolution : The Economic Perspective / Andrew John -- What Do We Learn from Neurolinguistics? / Mark Leikin -- Linguistic Distances and Ethnolinguistic Fractionalization and Disenfranchisement Indices / Victor Ginsburgh and Schlomo Weber -- Ancestry, Language and Culture / Enrico Spolaore and Romain Wacziarg -- Language Learning and Communicative Benefits / Efthymios Athanasiou [and others] -- Language and Emotion / Niall Bond and Victor Ginsburgh -- Common Spoken Languages and International Trade / Peter H. Egger and Farid Toubal -- Economic Exchange and Business Language in the Ancient World : An Exploratory Review / Nigel Holden -- Language Use in Multinational Corporations : The Role of Special Languages and Corporate Idiolects / Susanne Tietze [and others] -- Language and Migration / Alícia Adserà and Mariola Pytliková -- Translation : Economic and Sociological Perspectives / Johan Heilbron and Gisèle Sapiro -- Languages, Fees and the International Scope of Patenting / Dietmar Harhoff [and others] -- Linguistic Cleavages and Economic Development / Klaus Desmet [and others] -- Language Choices : Political and Economic Factors in Three European States / Sue Wright -- Languages, Regional Conflicts and Economic Development in South Asia / Selma K. Sonntag -- Is Language Destiny? : The Origins and Consequences of Ethnolinguistic Diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa / Brandon de la Cuesta and Leonard Wantchekon -- Languages, Regional Conflicts and Economic Development : Russia / Denis V. Kadochnikov -- English as a Global Language / Jacques Melitz -- Challenges of Minority Languages / François Grin -- Language Rights A Welfare-Economics Approach / Bengt-Arne Wickström -- A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Minority Language Use in Multilingual Societies / José Ramón Uriarte.

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9781137325044 (hbk.)
1137325046 (hbk.)

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