Format:
1 online resource (225 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415188609
,
9780203138038
Series Statement:
International Series in Social Psychology Series
Content:
From 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. Webley, Burgoyne, Lea and Young begin by introducing the concept of economic behaviour and its study. They then examine the main economic issues faced at each life stage, including: * the impact of advertising on children * buying a first house and setting up home * changing family roles and gender-linked inequality * redundancy and unemployment * coping on a pension * obituaries, wills and inheritance. Finally they draw together the commonalties of economic problems across the lifespan, discuss generational and cultural changes in economic behaviour, and examine the significance of other, non-economic constraints, upon individuals. The Economic Psychology of Everyday Life provides a much-needed comprehensive and accessible guide to economic psychology which will be of great interest to researchers and students
Note:
Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- An Introduction to Economic Psychology -- How Can We Study the Economic Psychology of Everyday Life? -- Psychology, Economics and the Economic Psychology of Everyday Life -- The Early Years The Economic Problems of Childhood -- Children and Commerce An Uneasy Relationship -- The 'Wherewithal' -- The Broader Picture -- Summary and Conclusions -- Becoming an Economic Adult -- A First Job -- A First Income -- First Purchases -- Discussion -- Economic Behaviour in the Family -- The Family as a Dynamic System -- The Central Importance of Gender -- Future Research Problems -- New Problems in the Future -- Economic Behaviour in Maturity -- Individual Differences and Economic Behaviour -- Buying: The Mature Consumer -- Work and Unemployment -- Discussion -- The Golden Years? Economic Behaviour in Retirement -- The Retirement Event -- The State of Retirement -- Economic Activity After Retirement -- Frailty -- Reconstructing the Past -- Economic Life After Death -- Concluding Remarks -- Afterword -- The New Millennium and the Postmodern Consumer -- The Future of Economic Psychology -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Webley, Paul The Economic Psychology of Everyday Life Hove : Taylor & Francis Group,c2001 ISBN 9780415188609
Language:
English
Keywords:
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