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Author Rosenberg, Tina.

Title Join the club : how peer pressure can transform the world / Tina Rosenberg.

Imprint New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2011.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  303.327 R723j 2011    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xxiv, 402 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-379) and index.
Summary In "Join the Club," Rosenberg identifies a brewing social revolution that is changing the way people live, based on harnessing the positive force of peer pressure, and shows how peer pressure has reduced teen smoking in the United States, made villages in India healthier and more prosperous, helped minority students get top grades in college calculus, and even led to the fall of Slobodan Milosevic.
Contents Turning positive -- The empire of irrationality -- Righteous rebels -- Corporate tools -- The calculus club -- Angels of change -- A problem that has no name -- The party -- The judo of fear -- Next.
Subject Social change.
Peer pressure.
Social groups.
ISBN 9780393068580 (hardcover)
0393068587

 
    
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