TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Akerlof, George A.
AU  - Snower, Dennis J.
        TI  - Bread and Bullets
        PY  - 2016/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9701
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9701
        AB  - Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities; defining power relations; and establishing and conveying social norms. This paper describes the role narratives play in decision making, as it also juxtaposes this description against the backdrop of the Bolshevik-spawned narrative that played a critical role in the history of Russia and the Soviet Union in the 20th Century.
        KW  - motivation
KW  - attention
KW  - prediction
KW  - identity
KW  - social assignment
KW  - narrative
        ER  -