The Economics of Caste and of the Rat Race and Other Woeful Tales

19761,009 citationsJournal Article

Authors

George A. Akerlof · University of California, Berkeley

Abstract

I. Introduction, 599.—II. Sharecropping, 601.—III. Work conditions: the rat race, 603.—IV. Statistical discrimination, 606.—V. Caste and group organizations, 608.—VI. Conclusions, 617.

Topics & Keywords

South Asian Studies and Conflicts Social and Economic Development in India Indian Economic and Social Development

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Reduced inequalities

Publication Details

Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volume 90, Issue 4, pp. 599-599

DOI: 10.2307/1885324

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