Behavioural economics

In mainstream economics, and particularly in New Keynesian macroeconomics, the booms and busts that characterize capitalism arise because of large external shocks.

This book brings together the insights from three different areas, Information Seeking and Retrieval, Cognitive Psychology, and Behavioral Economics, and shows how this new interdisciplinary approach can advance our knowledge about users interacting with diverse search systems, especially their seemingly irrational decisions and anomalies that could not be predicted by most normative models.

This book provides an engaging introduction to economics through a literary lens.

Increasingly today, in every age group, consumers are committing to brands that show good citizenship--from fair employment practices, to social responsibility, to charitable giving.

Tax systems raise large amounts of revenue for funding public sector's activities, and tax/transfer policy, together with public provision of education, health care, and social services, play a crucial role in treating the symptoms and the causes of poverty.

Employee and manager rebellions occur more often than you might think.

Revised and updated for the second edition, this textbook presents over 100 exercises on industrial organization with detailed answer keys.

Living standards in the UK and US are in danger of falling.

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The demand for return in investment (ROI) analyses in public health is on the rise as a 'business case' needs to be presented before a public health programme can be funded.

In today's highly concentrated marketplaces, social and cultural values--such as the lifestyle connotations that manufacturers and sellers confer upon their goods--often shape consumers' prior beliefs and attitudes and affect the weight given to new information by consumers who make purchasing decisions in the marketplace.

This book provides new interdisciplinary and comparative answers as to why banking sectors in 'liberal' and 'coordinated' market economies operated under a shared set of rules during the Global Financial Crisis.

Nudging is a controversial technique for changing people's behaviours.

This book presents an edited collection of chapters from academic and industry expert contributors focusing on the directions of blockchain cryptocurrency from leading authorities in their field providing the cutting-edge and timely insights in the world of cryptocurrency behaviour.

This book examines the intricate dynamics of when individuals adhere to laws, taking into account the context in which laws attempt to shape human behavior.

Jobs To Be Done is key to building successful products, and this book masterfully gives a stepbystep guide on how to put it into practice.

Taking a comparative approach, this book investigates the ways that obesity and its susceptibilities are framed in science and policy.

A BLOOMBERG BEST BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER - SILVER MEDAL, AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2018 FOREWORD BY NOURIEL ROUBINISuperHubs is a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the global financial system and the powerful personal networks through which it is run, at the centre of which sit the Elites - the SuperHubs.

Through the lens of multi- and interdisciplinarity, this book highlights the potential of progress in cloud computing technologies, metaverse development, and digital transformation in charting a path to economic and social recovery, governance process and societal evolution  enabling to tackle the global polycrises  triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.

An international and historical look at how parenting choices change in the face of economic inequalityParents everywhere want their children to be happy and do well.

Beyond Diversity and Intercultural Management develops a change model designed to challenge prevailing paradigms in the literature and conversations about equal employment opportunity, diversity, and intercultural management.

This authoritative collection goes beyond economic statistics and probability data to offer a robust psychological understanding of risk perception and risk taking behavior.

In recent years, auctions have become an important field and many markets have designed new and sophisticated auction models to assign different types of items.

What does it mean to be a flourishing human in a Western liberal democracy in the twenty-first century?

The question of consumption emerged as a major focus of research and scholarship in the 1990s but the breadth and diversity of consumer culture has not been fully enough explored.

At least six different Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiments are underway or planned right now in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Finland, and Kenya.

Recognising that the economy is a complex system with boundedly rational interacting agents, applies complexity modelling to economics and finance.

This book explores the insights that can be gained by looking at the criminal justice system from an economic point of view.

This book is the first systematic exposition of advances in Kaiyu studies carried out by the author and his colleagues in Japan and other parts of Asia.

This edited volume focuses on big data implications for computational social science and humanities from management to usage.

This book explores how economics can be based around studies on human behaviour, rather than relying on overly simplified assumptions generated from mathematical modelling.

Capitalism and the Senses is the first edited volume to explore how the forces of capitalism are entangled with everyday sensory experience.

Few areas have witnessed the type of growth we have seen in the affective sciences in the past decades.

East Germany's economic history is typically told as a story of the unravelling of an inherently flawed system.

This book establishes that neoclassical economics based on the marginal utility calculus failed to derive a theory of consumer market price discovery consistent with the experimental market evidence.

Die Nutzung IT-basierter Nudges im medizinischen Dienstleistungssektor, in dem die digitale Transformation zusehends mehr Bedeutung erlangt, ist ein noch sehr junges Themenfeld, dem einerseits wesentliche Potenziale zur Steigerung des Patientennutzens und der Eindämmung von Behandlungskosten beigemessen werden, mit dem andererseits aber auch Kritikpunkte wie unzureichende Effektivität, gar fehlende Wirksamkeit verbunden werden.

The concept of money illusion, a recently resurrected phenomenon of behavioral economics, is a real fact of economic life, the potential role of which should no longer be dismissed.

What produces emotions?

How dynamic businesses of every size can unleash innovation by inviting customers to codesign what they do and make.