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Understanding Economic Behaviour

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Klaus G. Grunert

    1. The Aarhus School of Business, Denmark

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  2. Folke Ölander

    1. The Aarhus School of Business, Denmark

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Part of the book series: Theory and Decision Library A: (TDLA, volume 11)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction to the Volume

    1. Introduction to the Volume

      • Klaus G. Grunert, Folke Ölander
      Pages 1-5

  3. Economic Factors and Individual Satisfaction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. National Wealth and Individual Happiness

      • Ruut Veenhoven
      Pages 9-32

    3. Beliefs about Attainment of Life Satisfaction as Determinants of Preferences for Everyday Activities

      • Tommy Gärling, Erik Lindberg, Henry Montgomery
      Pages 33-46

    4. Need for Achievement and Entrepreneurial Activity in Small Firms

      • Per Davidsson
      Pages 47-64

    5. The Kibbutz and Private Property

      • Amir Helman, Yoram Kroll, Ada Lampert
      Pages 65-74

  4. Inflation, Unemployment, and Taxation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. Perceptions of Inflation

      • John Hudson
      Pages 77-91

    3. Cross-Sectional Evidence on the Rationality of the Mean and Variance of Inflation Expectations

      • Roy Batchelor, Lars Jonung
      Pages 93-105

    4. The Perceived Causal Structure of Unemployment

      • Peter K. Lunt
      Pages 107-120

    5. A Cross-National Comparison of Attitudes, Personality, Behaviour, and Social Comparison in Tax Evasion Experiments

      • Henry S. J. Robben, Paul Webley, Henk Elffers, Dick J. Hessing
      Pages 121-134

    6. Perception and Judgment of Marginal Tax Rates After a Tax Reduction

      • Richard Wahlund
      Pages 135-179
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may be related to another basic assumption in economic psychology: that the human capacity to process information from the environment is limited, and that the kind of optimal use of that information postulated in many economic theories is therefore not possible. The research methods used are mainly geared towards empirical research, and there mostly towards survey research and experimentation. Experimentation involves most often simulated behaviour in a laboratory, which allows the experimental manipulation of possible causes of behaviour which would not be possible in real life. Survey research is the most widely used instrument for investigating real-world behaviour, with all its caveats about establishing causal explanations. Several introductory books (e. g. , Fumham & Lewis, 1986; Lea, Tarpy, & Webley, 1987; van Raaij, van Veldhoven, & Wlimeryd, 1988) and articles (e. g. , van Raaij, 1979; Wiswede, 1988) have appeared recently, which try to give an overview of the field of economic psychology, and which, in varying degrees, demonstrate the three foundations of economic psychology just mentioned. Others have concentrated on certain subtopics, such as the psychology of the labour market (e. g. , Baxter, 1988; Pelzmann, 1986).

Editors and Affiliations

  • The Aarhus School of Business, Denmark

    Klaus G. Grunert, Folke Ölander

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Understanding Economic Behaviour

  • Editors: Klaus G. Grunert, Folke Ölander

  • Series Title: Theory and Decision Library A:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2470-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1989

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0482-1Published: 31 October 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7614-2Published: 01 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2470-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0921-3384

  • Series E-ISSN: 2352-2119

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 441

  • Topics: Economics, general, Business and Management, general

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