1st Edition

The Economic Psychology of Everyday Life

224 Pages
by Psychology Press

224 Pages
by Psychology Press

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: *... Read more

1 An Introduction to Economic Psychology 2 The Early Years—The Economic Problems of Childhood 3 Becoming an Economic Adult 4 Economic Behaviour in the Family 5 Economic Behaviour in Maturity 6 The Golden Years? Economic Behaviour in Retirement 7 Afterword

Biography

Paule Webley, Carole Burgoyne, Stephen Lea and Brian Young are all members of the Economic Psychology Research Group at the Department of Psychology, University of Exeter.

'A good introduction to 'economic psychology' as it affects stages through our lives money management's answer to total body conditioning.' - The Observer