Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Language

Shlomo Weber is the Founding Dean at the School of Humanities, Natural and Social Sciences, New Uzbekistan University, Uzbekistan, and Professor Emeritus at the Southern Methodist University, USA.Victor Ginsburgh is Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of Brussels, Belgium.

• Part I. Linguistic Diversity: Origins and Measurement.- 1. Whorfian Economics.- 2. Dynamic Models of Language Evolution: The Linguistic Perspective.- 3. Dynamic Models of Language Survival and Language Death: The Economic Perspective.- 4. The Role of Linguistic Diversity in Economics.- 5. Axiomatic Approach to Measuring the Value of Languages.- Part II. Languages and Economic Decisions.- 6. Partial Language Acquisition: The Impact of Conformity.- 7. Gender Differences in Language Skills and Wage Disparities.- 8. Large Language Models in Economics.- 9. Language in the Marketplace.- Part III. The Macroeconomic Impact of Languages.- 10.   Language Policy and Socioeconomic Outcomes.- 11. Common Spoken Languages and International Trade.- 12. Language and Migration.- 13. Language as a Macro-Level Driver of International Student Mobility.- Part IV. Linguistic Globalization.- 14. Translation: Economic and Sociological Perspectives.- 15. Challenges of Minority Languages.- 16. Minority-Languages Rights: Rational Policy Based on Welfare Economics.- Part V. Languages: Regional Challenges.- 17. Language Choices: Political and Economic Factors in France and Spain.- 18. Linguistic Policies in the Post-Brexit European Union.- 19. Local Cadres, Dialects & Economic Performance in China.- 20. Language Diversity and Economic consequences in India.- 21. A Lingua Franca for Kurdish Populations.- 22. Linguistic Policies and Economic Development in Russia: A Historical Perspective.