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Behavioural Foundations of Economics

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. The Basic Building Blocks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Introduction

      • J. L. Baxter
      Pages 3-9
    3. The Basic Model in Outline

      • J. L. Baxter
      Pages 11-17
    4. Personal Characteristics

      • J. L. Baxter
      Pages 19-32
  3. The Environment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-34
    2. The Social Environment

      • J. L. Baxter
      Pages 35-76
    3. The Physical Environment

      • J. L. Baxter
      Pages 77-87
    4. The Economic Environment

      • J. L. Baxter
      Pages 89-93
  4. Individual Decision-Making

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
    2. The Individual Decision-Making Process

      • J. L. Baxter
      Pages 97-121
  5. Socioeconomic Decision-Making

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123
    2. Socioeconomic Decision-Making: the Family

      • J. L. Baxter
      Pages 125-135
    3. Socioeconomic Decision-Making: Trade Unions

      • J. L. Baxter
      Pages 137-153
    4. Socioeconomic Decision-Making: Firms

      • J. L. Baxter
      Pages 155-184
    5. Socioeconomic Decision-Making: Government

      • J. L. Baxter
      Pages 185-209
  6. Aggregate Behaviour and Conclusions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211
    2. Aggregate Behaviour

      • J. L. Baxter
      Pages 213-236
    3. Conclusions and Implications

      • J. L. Baxter
      Pages 237-243
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 245-265

About this book

In recent years, work on what may broadly be described as 'behavioural economics' has expanded rapidly, and is now attracting the attention of leading figures in economics, such as Kenneth Arrow. Much of the work, however, has concentrated on particular aspects of individual and aggregate behaviour. The book attempts to construct a unified framework, showing both how behavioural variables form the basis of economic activity, and how behavioural and economic variables interact to determine individual and aggregate behaviour.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Sheffield University Management School, UK

    J. L. Baxter

About the author

JUDITH BAXTER is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Aston University, UK. Her research interests are in the fields of gender and language, discourse analysis, classroom language, leadership language, identity and feminist post-structuralism. She is the author of Positioning Gender in Discourse: A Feminist Methodology (Palgrave, 2003), and The Language of Female Leadership (Palgrave 2010) as well as editor of Speaking Out: The Female Voice in Public Contexts (Palgrave 2006). She recently won an ESRC grant to research the subject of gender and leadership discourse.

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