The economic psychology of everyday life / Paul Webley [and others]
From childhood through to adulthood, retirement and finally death, "The Economic Psychology of Everyday Life" explores the economic problems all individuals have to solve across the course of their lives. Webley, Burgoyne, Lea and Young begin by introducing the concept of economic behaviou...
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
Psychology Press,
2001.
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| Series: | International series in social psychology.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. An Introduction to Economic Psychology. What is Economic Behaviour. Approaches to Economic Behaviour. Optimality
- the Economist's Approach. Extensions of the Optimality Approach to the Whole Life Time. The Household Life Cycle. Developmental Psychology. Expressive/communicative. Economic psychology. How We Can Study the Economic Psychology of Everyday Life. Experimental Approaches. Survey Research. The Comparative Approach. Psychology, Economics and the Economic Psychology of Everyday Life. 2. The Early Years: The Economic Problems of Childhood. Economic Socialization. Children and Commerce
- An Uneasy Relationship. The Child as a Consumer of Good and Services. Making Sense of Commercial Communications. The "Wherewithal". Getting Hold of the Wherewithall. Children's Understanding and Use of Money. Saving. Autonomous Economies Picture. How Children Understand the Institutional Arrangements That Constitute the Economy at Large. Summary and Conclusions. 3. Becoming an Economic Adult. Four Paths to Economic Independence. From school to Adulthood: Workers, Students, Claimants and Marginals. New Households
- Individuals, Couples, Communes. Class, Gender and Race. Challenges and Resources. A First Job. Attitudes and Work. Career Choice. The Work/ Study Choice. Looking for Work. Youth Unemployment: Introduction. Causes of Youth Unemployment. Effects of Youth Unemployment. A First Income. Learning Money Management. Student and Non-Student Debt. Degrees of Independence: Hypothecation of Parental Support. First Purchases. Are Young Consumers Different. Consumable Goods and Services. Consumer Durables and Setting Up Home. Buying a House. Discussion. 4. Economic Behaviour in the Family. Introduction. The Family as a Dynamic System. Changing Families. Interacting Families. Interacting Systems: "Public" and "Private". The Central Importance Of Gender. Micro-Economic Accounts of the Family. Gender Inequalities. Financial Organization. Decision-Making. Divorce, Lone P.