Behavioural economics

This book from the acclaimed management writer Adrian Furnham, explores the dark side of leadership and how and why leaders can have a negative impact upon their companies and organisations.

Considering decreasing birth rates and increasing rates of life expectancy, the workforce is rapidly aging - resulting in a more age-diverse labor market.

Time is the ultimate scarce resource and thus quintessentially a topic for economics, which studies scarcity.

In this practical and fascinating follow-up to their behind-the-scenes look at America's most powerful and influential class, authors Jim Taylor, Stephen Kraus, and Doug Harrison reveal insights and indispensable techniques to help salespeople and marketers hone in on wealthy customers, pique their interest, and earn their trust--and repeated business.

The first textbook to present a framework of the Behavioral Political Science paradigm for understanding political decision-making.

This book presents and uses a major, new database of the most serious forms of internal resistance to the Nazi state to study empirically the whole phenomenon of resistance to an authoritarian regime.

Conventional wisdom dictates that those goods which are said to cause harm or impose costs on society deserve a special tax.

This 2007 book assembles the findings of economic-psychological research on tax compliance with a focus on tax evasion.

This book analyzes the conflict that emerges between parties after a breach of contract and how different legal remedies can best reduce conflict.

This is the first book to describe the entire developmental history of the human aspects of economics.

This book aims at providing an empirical understanding of the main drivers affecting investors' preferences in financing new ventures through equity crowdfunding (ECF) and determining fundraising campaign success.

The past twenty years have witnessed a surge in behavioral studies of law and law-related issues.

Core-Periphery Relations and Organization Studies draws together postcolonial and indigenous thinking through the conceptual lens of core-periphery relations to advance debate in organization studies.

This book looks at financial advisory from a behavioural perspective, and focuses on how the nature of the relationship between advisors and clients may affect the ability of the advisor to perform its functions.

The Community of Advantage asks how economists should do normative analysis.

Trading, forecasting, aggregating, and innovating (the Four) are key social interactions in human life at both the individual and aggregate levels.

Why are collective choices so stable and easy to make in practice, when in theory it should be totally otherwise?

Explores the concept of complexity and analyses how organizational governance can contribute to environmental sustainability.

This book explores the interplay between financial markets, economic systems, and society.

This text provides a comprehensive and unique introduction to modern microeconomics.

Whether it's sleek leather pants, a shiny new Apple computer, or a designer toaster, we make important decisions as consumers every day based on our sensory experience.

From acclaimed political scientist Diana Mutz, a revealing look at why people's attitudes on trade differ from their own self-interestWinners and Losers challenges conventional wisdom about how American citizens form opinions on international trade.

From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, bold new ideas for creating environments that promise a brighter futurePsychologists have long understood that social environments profoundly shape our behavior, sometimes for the better, often for the worse.

This fifth volume of The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis covers behavioral models of learning.

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.

Two world-renowned marketing consultants and bestselling authors present the definitive rules of marketing.

This textbook is an introductory guide to applying behavioral sciences and systemic thinking into public policy design and implementation.

Fame is like lightning.

This book offers an extensive and original study of the dynamics of rivalry, evolution of costly and violent conflicts, and potential cooperation among powerful players.

The world of digitalisation is changing the way how people and business companies communicate with each other.

This book stresses the psychological perspective in explaining financial behavior.

How do applications affect behavior?

Captures the perspectives of the field''s leading thinkers, focusing on foundational and emerging concepts in consumer psychology.

Dies Buch formuliert betriebswirtschaftliche Anforderungen an die Investitionssteuerung und analysiert Rahmenbedingungen staatlicher Investitionsprozesse.

Das Lehrbuch ermöglicht einen schnellen Einstieg in (wirtschafts-)ethische Grundlagentheorien sowie in die moralische Verhaltensökonomik, die angesichts weitreichender Unternehmensskandale zunehmend in den Fokus akademischer Lehrpläne rückt.

People regularly multitask, though we have been warned about the mental costs of "e;task-switching"e; in psychology and the popular press.

Choice is a key concept of our time.

This book presents the best, peer-reviewed contributions from the XII Congress of the Italian Society of Ergonomics and Human Factors (SIE), held in Lucca, Italy, on May 2-4, 2022.

In The Pursuit of Happiness, renowned economist Carol Graham explores what we know about the determinants of happiness and clearly presents both the promise and the potential pitfalls of injecting the "e;"e;economics of happiness"e;"e; into public policymaking.

This concise monograph introduces and examines social influence from the perspective of the so-called target, rather than from the source, thus providing for the first time a bidirectional account of this pervasive social phenomenon, further bridging  simple micro-level dyadic interaction rules with macro-level properties of the (social) system.

The first volume in a series of three focuses on myth in everyday organizational life, pertaining to individual actors: heroes and heroines, and the roles they play in organizations.

At the end of the twentieth century, Britain was a consumer society.

The highly acclaimed manual for changing everyday habits-now in an all-newthird edition!

Contextualizing Humanitarian work in history, justice, methods and professional ethics, this book articulates process skills for transformational partnerships between diverse organizations, motivating education, organisational learning and selecting the disaster workforce.

Why do people in some societies tend to follow rules and obey the laws more than those in other societies?

An overarching liberal political economy of behavioural public policy, offering a radical departure from existing paternalistic frameworks.

'A landmark new book.