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This volume includes essays by prominent economists and
psychologists working at the frontiers of economic psychology. A
number of essays probe beliefs and expectations about rationality,
consumer behaviour and expectations, and others assess
psychological explanations of economic behaviour and the
contribution of experimental economics. The book should be
essential reading for both psychologists and economists with an
interest in the most recent research in economic psychology.
Originally published in 1993, this book presents an alternative
approach to the study of the emergence of economic awareness during
childhood: a new developmental economic psychology! In the past,
attempts to study the emergence of children's economic
consciousness have failed to take account of the practical nature
of the "economic" in the history of western cultures. Economic
socialisation has been seen as the acquisition of abstract
knowledge about the institutions of adult economic culture. The
child has been seen as a spectator, acquiring knowledge of that
culture, but never really a part of it. However, economic actions,
in essence, are directed not towards the attainment of knowledge,
but rather towards the practical solution of problems of resource
allocation imposed by constraint. Children, just like adults, are
faced with practical problems of resource allocation. Their
response to these problems may be different from those of adults
but no less "economic" for that. This realisation forms the heart
of this book. In it children are seen as both inhabitants of their
own "playground" economic subculture and actors in the wider
economic world of adults, solving, or attempting to solve,
practical economic problems. In order to highlight this
"child-centred" approach, the authors studied the way children
tackle the particular problems posed by limitations of income. How
do children learn (a) the relationship between choices available in
the present and the future, (b) to spread their limited financial
resources over time into the future and (c) about the strategies,
such as banking, that allow them to protect those resources from
threats and temptations? In short, how do children learn to save?
This volume goes some way to answering these and related questions
and in so doing sets up an alternative framework for the study of
the emergence of economic awareness.
Originally published in 1993, this book presents an alternative
approach to the study of the emergence of economic awareness during
childhood: a new developmental economic psychology! In the past,
attempts to study the emergence of children's economic
consciousness have failed to take account of the practical nature
of the "economic" in the history of western cultures. Economic
socialisation has been seen as the acquisition of abstract
knowledge about the institutions of adult economic culture. The
child has been seen as a spectator, acquiring knowledge of that
culture, but never really a part of it. However, economic actions,
in essence, are directed not towards the attainment of knowledge,
but rather towards the practical solution of problems of resource
allocation imposed by constraint. Children, just like adults, are
faced with practical problems of resource allocation. Their
response to these problems may be different from those of adults
but no less "economic" for that. This realisation forms the heart
of this book. In it children are seen as both inhabitants of their
own "playground" economic subculture and actors in the wider
economic world of adults, solving, or attempting to solve,
practical economic problems. In order to highlight this
"child-centred" approach, the authors studied the way children
tackle the particular problems posed by limitations of income. How
do children learn (a) the relationship between choices available in
the present and the future, (b) to spread their limited financial
resources over time into the future and (c) about the strategies,
such as banking, that allow them to protect those resources from
threats and temptations? In short, how do children learn to save?
This volume goes some way to answering these and related questions
and in so doing sets up an alternative framework for the study of
the emergence of economic awareness.
The aim of this book, first published in 1991, is not to examine
the moral or economic rights and wrongs of the issue, but to
introduce a fresh way of exploring this old but growing problem.
Research into tax evasion has been bedevilled with measurement
problems: the hidden economy has been well named. The key is to
design experimental situations that engage the same psychological
processes as their real-world counterparts. This has been achieved
by embedding the declaration of taxes in simulated business games.
A feature of the research is that it is cross-national (carried out
in the Netherlands and the UK), which also enhances ecological
validity. This work will be of particular interest to applied
social psychologists, tax researchers and experimental economists.
This book is the first comprehensive work to focus exclusively on
the use of adsorbents and adsorption processes to capture and
recover carbon dioxide from a large variety of process and waste
streams. The book also serves as an essential point of entry for
researchers new to the field as well as a reference source for more
experienced researchers. The topic of carbon dioxide capture is of
great importance in the push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and
mitigate global warming. The book compiles the available data
gathered on adsorbents to date and shows how adsorbents can be and
already are used in various processes. Carbon dioxide capture by
adsorption is also one of the key focus items in carbon capture and
storage. The full range of adsorption processes and the most recent
advances in the field are covered.
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