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Psychological Foundations of Economic Behavior
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Paul J. Albanese
With a foreword by Tibor Scitovsky
Book Code: C2742
ISBN: 0-275-92742-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-92742-4
190 pages, figs., index, tables
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 11/2/1988
List Price: $103.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
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Description: The papers collected here represent the growing range of issues addressed by both economists and psychologists. The collection's main objectives are twofold: to broaden the behavioral basis of economic analysis at a social level and to expand the limits of economic theory's applicability. The contributors attempt to find a common ground of analysis that bridges disciplines and to establish a framework that integrates psychology's contributions with economics. They explore mathematical models of psychological functions, the use of psychoanalytic theory in economics, entrepreneurial behaviour, and the impact of "personality types" on organizations.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword by Tibor Scitovsky
  • Introduction by Paul J. Albanese
  • Novelty, Comfort, and Pleasure: Inside the Utility Function Black Box by Shlomo Maital
  • How the Opponent-Process Theory of Acquired Motivation Came Into Economics by Richard L. Solomon
  • A Model of Consumption and Demand Based on Psychological Opponent Processes by Lester D. Taylor
  • The Intimate Relations of the Consistent Consumer: Psychoanalytic Object Relations Theory Applied to Economics by Paul J. Albanese
  • Personality, Culture, and Organization by Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries and Danny Miller
  • Decisions, Coalitions, and the Economy of the Self by Abraham Zaleznik
  • The Entrepreneur and Society by Joshua Ronen
  • Toward a New Paradigm by Amitai Etzioni
LC Card Number: 87-38476
LCC Class: HB74
Dewey Class: 330
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