Economics and Psychology

Part 1 Economics and psychology - an overview: psychology and economics, Sharone L. Maital and Shlomo Maital. Part 2 Economic socialization: understanding children's economic socialization, Dominique Lassarre and Christine Roland-Levy; a study in economic psychology - children's saving in a play economy, Paul Webley et al. Part 3 The contest for self-command: specious reward - a behavioural theory of impulsiveness and impulse control, George Ainslie; self-command in practice, in policy and in a theory of rational choice, Thomas C. Snelling; Prometheus rebound - on welfare-improving constraints, Shlomo Maital; addiction and backsliding - a theory of compulsive consumption, Gordon C. Winston; the behavioural life-cycle hypothesis, Hersh M. Shefrin and Richard H. Thaler; anomalies in intertemporal choice - evidence and an interpretation, George Loewenstein and Drazen Prelec. Part 4 Rational choice: a behavioural model of rational choice, Herbert A. Simon; bounded rationality, ambiguity and the engineering of choice, James G. March; rational choice theory - necessary but not sufficient, J. Herrnstein. Part 5 Endogenous preferences: the economic consequences of cognitive dissonance, George A. Akerlof and William T. Dickens; how to bring joy into economics, Tibor Scitovsky; paying to be good?, John G. Collis et al. Part 6 The economic psychology of demand and markets: an experimental study of competitive market behaviour, Vernon L. Smith; bandwagon, snob and veblen effects in the theory of consumer's demand, H. Leibenstein; the psychology and economics of demand, S. Lea; behavioural and ecological economics: consumer behaviour - theory and findings on expectations and aspirations, George Katona. Part 7 Behaviour toward risk: judgement under uncertainty - heuristics and biases, Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman; risk, ambiguity and insurance, Robin M. Hogarth and Howard Kunreuther. Part 8 Capital markets: some causes and consequences of dependence and independence in the Stock Market, Stanley Schachter et al; does the Stock Market overreact?, Werner F.M. de Bondt and Richard Thaler. Part 9 Applying economics to psychology: the relevance of economic theory and technology to token reinforcement systems, R.C. Winkler; maximization theory in behavioural psychology, Howard Rachlin et al; on the economy of the human-processing system, David Navon and Daniel Gopher.