The Economic Psychology of Everyday LifeFrom childhood through to adulthood, retirement and finally death, The Economic Psychology of Everyday Life uniquely explores the economic problems all individuals have to solve across the course of their lives. |
Contents
An lntroduction to Economic Psychology | 1 |
How Can We Study the Economic Psychology of Everyday Life? | 13 |
Psychology Economics and the Economic Psychology of Everyday Life | 18 |
The Early Years The Economic Problems of Childhood | 20 |
Children and Commerce An Uneasy Relationship | 21 |
The Wherewithal | 32 |
The Broader Picture | 39 |
Summary and Conclusions | 41 |
Individual Differences and Economic Behaviour | 107 |
The Mature Consumer | 114 |
Work and Unemployment The changing nature of work? | 119 |
Discussion | 125 |
The Golden Years? Economic Behaviour in Retirement | 126 |
The Retirement Event | 129 |
The State of Retirement | 132 |
Economic Activity After Retirement | 135 |
Becoming an Economic Adult | 44 |
A First Job | 49 |
A First Income | 65 |
First Purchases | 68 |
Discussion | 73 |
Economic Behaviour in the Family | 75 |
The Family as a Dynamic System Changing families | 77 |
The Central Importance of Gender | 79 |
Future Research Problems | 93 |
New Problems in the Future | 96 |
Economic Behaviour in Maturity | 99 |
Frailty | 143 |
Reconstructing the Past | 146 |
Economic Life After Death | 147 |
Concluding Remarks | 150 |
Afterword | 152 |
The New Millennium and the Postmodern Consumer | 154 |
The Future of Economic Psychology | 159 |
References | 162 |
Author Index | 201 |
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The Economic Psychology of Everyday Life Paul Webley,Carole Burgoyne,Stephen Lea,Brian Young Limited preview - 2002 |
The Economic Psychology of Everyday Life Paul Webley,Carole Burgoyne,Stephen Lea,Brian Young Limited preview - 2002 |