Behavioural and Experimental Economics
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Understanding Collective Decision Making
Lasse Gerrits, Peter Marks
One of the main challenges facing contemporary society is to understand how people can make decisions together. Understanding Collective Decision Making builds on evolutionary theories and presents an analytical tool to analyse and visua...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook of Research on Sustainable Consumption
Edited by Lucia A. Reisch, John Thøgersen
This Handbook compiles the state of the art of current research on sustainable consumption from the world’s leading experts in the field. The implementation of sustainable consumption presents one of the greatest challenges and opportuni...eBook:Find out more$60.76
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Understanding Ponzi Schemes
Mervyn K. Lewis
A Ponzi scheme is one of the simplest, albeit effective, financial frauds to engineer, and new schemes keep coming forward. Despite this, however, people continue to invest in them. How are we to account for the seemingly never-ending lu...eBook:Find out more$32.76
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Economic Behaviour and Taxation
Edited by James Alm, J. S. Leguizamon
Over several decades there have been major changes to the way public economists investigate behavioural responses to taxation. This includes areas such as the supply of labour, charitable giving, savings, capital gains realisations, mobi... -
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The Economics of Philanthropy and Fundraising
Edited by James Andreoni
What are people buying when they give money away? Is pure altruism possible? Who benefits from grants to charities and subsidies to givers? Is religious giving different? Which fundraising approaches ‘work’, and is more charity always be... -
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Vanity Economics
C. Simon Fan
This book presents an accessible and sometimes controversial economic exploration of numerous issues surrounding sex, marriage and family. It analyzes the role of ‘vanity’, defined as social status and self-esteem, in social and economic...eBook:Find out more$42.36
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Handbook on the Economics of Reciprocity and Social Enterprise
Edited by Luigino Bruni, Stefano Zamagni
The recent era of economic turbulence has generated a growing enthusiasm for an increase in new and original economic insights based around the concepts of reciprocity and social enterprise. This stimulating and thought-provoking Handboo...eBook:Find out more$60.76
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The Political Economy of Status
Theodore Koutsobinas
In this timely book Theodore Koutsobinas explores the system of status markets and their social effects including inequality. He explains how media fascination with superstars and luxury consumption goods amplify positional concerns for ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Changing Behaviours
Rhys Jones, Jessica Pykett, Mark Whitehead
Changing Behaviours charts the emergence of the behaviour change agenda in UK based public policy making since the late 1990s. By tracing the influence of the behavioural sciences on Whitehall policy makers, the authors explore a new ps...eBook:Find out more$37.56
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A Handbook of Economic Anthropology, Second Edition
Edited by James G. Carrier
The first edition of this unique Handbook was praised for its substantial and invaluable summary discussions of work by anthropologists on economic processes and issues, on the relationship between economic and non-economic areas of life...eBook:Find out more$65.56
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The Elgar Companion to Recent Economic Methodology
Edited by John B. Davis, D. Wade Hands
Bringing together a collection of leading contributors to this new methodological thinking, the authors explain how it differs from the past and point towards further concerns and future issues. The recent research programs explored incl...eBook:Find out more$65.56
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Handbook on Experimental Economics and the Environment
Edited by John A. List, Michael K. Price
Laboratory and field experiments have grown significantly in prominence over the past decade. The experimental method provides randomization in key variables therefore permitting a deeper understanding of important economic phenomena. Th...eBook:Find out more$65.00