This book presents state of the art reviews on classical and novel research fields in economic psychology. Internationally acknowledged experts and the next generation of younger researchers summarize the knowledge in their fields and outline promising avenues of future research. Chapters include fundamental as well as applied research topics such as the psychology of money, experience-based product design and the enhancement of financial capabilities. The book is targeted particularly towards researchers and advanced students looking to update their knowledge and refresh their thinking on future research developments.
Edited by Katharina Gangl and Erich Kirchler
Giving Behaviours and Social Cohesion
How People Who ‘Give’ Make Better Communities
Lorna Zischka
‘Giving’ time and money to the community indicates the existence of relationships that draw people together, and ‘who people give to’ indicates how inclusive these relational networks are. Using UK data for the analysis, Zischka argues that a person’s willingness to ‘give' is not only influenced by social cohesion; it also helps to generate social cohesion. For thriving communities, we therefore need to consider our ‘giving’ as well as our ‘getting’.
Monograph Chapter
In The Neuroscience of Organizational Behavior
Constant D. Beugré
- Published in print:
- 27 Apr 2018
Collection:
Business 2018
Monograph Chapter
In The Neuroscience of Organizational Behavior
Constant D. Beugré
- Published in print:
- 27 Apr 2018
Collection:
Business 2018
Constant D. Beugré
The Neuroscience of Organizational Behavior establishes the scientific foundations of organizational neuroscience, a nascent discipline that explores the neural correlates of human behavior in organizations. The book draws from several disciplines including the organizational sciences, neuroeconomics, cognitive psychology, social cognitive neuroscience and neuroscience. The topics discussed include the neural foundations of organizational phenomena, such as decision-making, leadership, fairness, trust and cooperation, emotions, ethics and morality, unconscious bias and diversity in the workplace.
Monograph Chapter
In The Neuroscience of Organizational Behavior
Constant D. Beugré
- Published in print:
- 27 Apr 2018
Collection:
Business 2018
Monograph Chapter
In The Neuroscience of Organizational Behavior
Constant D. Beugré
- Published in print:
- 27 Apr 2018
Collection:
Business 2018
Budgeting and public debt within a system of cooperative democracy
An Illusion of Democratic Political Economy
Giuseppe Eusepi and Richard E. Wagner
This chapter establishes an analytical benchmark of a democratic system in which political outcomes reflect genuine consensus among the participants. This benchmark traces to Antonio de Viti de Marco’s construction of contrasting models of democratic action. The theory of a wholly cooperative democratic regime provides a benchmark against which to examine actual democratic processes and arrangements. In this respect, and looking ahead, de Viti recognized that democratic regimes were not passive reflectors of individual preference orderings because they entailed relationships of domination and subordination.
Monograph Chapter
In Public Debt
Giuseppe Eusepi and Richard E. Wagner
- Published in print:
- 30 Jun 2017
Collection:
Economics 2017
Engines, ecologies and economic systems
An Illusion of Democratic Political Economy
Giuseppe Eusepi and Richard E. Wagner
This chapter asks the reader to think whether an economy in its entirety is better construed as an engine or as an ecological system. By treating it as an engine, economists can pretend to be mechanics. Once an economy is recognized to be a complex ecological system, the mythology of global governance gives way to the reality of multiple sources of local governance. For democracies, there is no person who can reasonably be described as making choices for the regime. Instead, choices emerge out of processes of interaction among collections of people.
Monograph Chapter
In Public Debt
Giuseppe Eusepi and Richard E. Wagner
- Published in print:
- 30 Jun 2017
Collection:
Economics 2017
Macroeconomics, fiscal policy and public debt: conflating myth and reality
An Illusion of Democratic Political Economy
Giuseppe Eusepi and Richard E. Wagner
The book’s theme is an elaboration and refinement of the early-twentieth century orientation toward public debt that Antonio de Viti de Marco set forth. As the book’s title asserts, public debt is a misnomer for a democratic scheme of political economy. To declare a democratic polity to be indebted is akin to observing a grin without a cat, to recall Dennis Robertson’s view of Keynes’s liquidity preference theory. While the entire book develops this claim, this chapter explains how standard macro theories of various types are more myth than reality, and with the mythology obscuring the realities of the domination-subordination relationships that suffuse democratic regimes.
Monograph Chapter
In Public Debt
Giuseppe Eusepi and Richard E. Wagner
- Published in print:
- 30 Jun 2017
Collection:
Economics 2017