Foundations of Economic Psychology A Behavioral and Mathematical App
This book provides an overview of the concept of economic psychology from behavioral and mathematical perspectives and related theoretical and empirical findings. Economic psychology is defined briefly as a general term for descriptive theories to explain
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Foundations of Economic Psychology A Behavioral and Mathematical Approach
Foundations of Economic Psychology
Kazuhisa Takemura
Foundations of Economic Psychology A Behavioral and Mathematical Approach
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Kazuhisa Takemura Department of Psychology Waseda University Tokyo, Japan
ISBN 978-981-13-9048-7 ISBN 978-981-13-9049-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9049-4
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Preface
This book provides an overview of the idea of economic psychology from behavioral and mathematical perspectives and related theoretical and empirical findings. Economic psychology is described briefly as the general term for descriptive theories to explain the psychological processes of microeconomic behaviors and macroeconomic phenomenon. As the studies of G. Katona who started economic psychology, G. H. A. Simon who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 1978, D. Kahneman, and R. Thaler who won the prize in 2002 and 2017, respectively, suggest, however, the psychological methodology and knowledge of economic psychology have been applied widely in such fields as economics, business administration, and engineering, and are expected to become useful in the future. This book will explain various behavioral and mathematical models of economic psychology related to microeconomic and macroeconomic phenomenon. Numerous models have been proposed to explain the psychological processes related to such economic phenomenon. This book will also introduce some new models that are useful to explain human economic behaviors. It ends with some speculation about the future of modern economic psychology while r
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