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Psychological Economics

Developments, Tensions, Prospects

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  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Peter E. Earl

    1. University of Tasmania, Australia

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Part of the book series: Recent Economic Thought (RETH, volume 13)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Peter E. Earl
    Pages 1-10

  3. Human Adaptability and Economic Surprise

    • Randall Bausor
    Pages 11-33

  4. Learning and Decision-Making in Economics and Psychology: A Methodological Perspective

    • Malcolm Rutherford
    Pages 35-54

  5. On Psyching up Economics

    • Rod Cross
    Pages 55-65

  6. Neoclassical Economics and the Psychology of Risk and Uncertainty

    • Ben J. Heijdra
    Pages 67-84

  7. Prospects for Mathematical Psychological Economics

    • John D. Hey
    Pages 85-99

  8. Subjectivism, Psychology, and the Modern Austrians

    • Jochen H. Runde
    Pages 101-120

  9. Subjectivism, Psychology, and the Modern Austrians: A Comment

    • A. M. Endres
    Pages 121-124

  10. Intervening Variables in Economics: An Explanation of Wage Behavior

    • John L. Baxter
    Pages 125-146

  11. The Psychological Economics of Conspicuous Consumption

    • Roger S. Mason
    Pages 147-162

  12. Individualist Economics Without Psychology

    • Lawrence A. Boland
    Pages 163-168

  13. Toward a Behavioral Analysis of Public Economics

    • Michael A. Brooks
    Pages 169-188

  14. Some Methods in Psychological Economics

    • Alan Lewis
    Pages 189-210

  15. Economics and Psychology: A Resurrection Story

    • A. W. Coats
    Pages 211-225

  16. On Being a Psychological Economist and Winning the Games Economists Play

    • Peter E. Earl
    Pages 227-242

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 243-274
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About this book

Peter E. Earl There is no doubt that it is appropriate for a series on Modern Economic Thought to include a book on the recent development of economic analysis incorporating ideas from psychology. This book was designed to appear in 1987, 15 years after the publication of a now classic collection of essays in honor of George Katona (Strumpel et aI. , 1972), who throughout the fifties and sixties had been tirelessly trying to persuade economists of the virtues of an infusion of psychology into their work. In the intervening 15 years there has been a considerable growth of interest along the lines for which Katona had been arguing. Many psychology-based economics mon­ ographs have appeared; a specialist quarterly, the Journal of Economic Psychology, commenced publication in 1981, with 1985 seeing the first issue of the Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics as yet another addition to growing ranks of "psychology-friendly" journals such as the Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Social Economics; and recently, within psychology itself, symposia have been taking place with a focus on the economics/psychology interface - for example, see the entire June 1982 issue of the British Journal of Social Psychology. For someone like myself, strongly committed to a psychological approach to economics, a 1 2 PSYCHOLOGICAL ECONOMICS problem of information overload and consequent ignorance of pertinent developments already looms large as a possibility.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Tasmania, Australia

    Peter E. Earl

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Psychological Economics

  • Book Subtitle: Developments, Tensions, Prospects

  • Editors: Peter E. Earl

  • Series Title: Recent Economic Thought

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7775-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89838-234-1Due: 30 November 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-011-7777-1Published: 21 May 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-7775-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-199X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 220

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Economics, general

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