Psychological Economics explains the increased interest in the application of psychological contributions to economic problems.   The authors investigate how psychological contributions are integrated into economic models of decision-making.  They also examine mathematical psychology and economics.The book presents a detailed case study of the use of psychology within the Austrian economics research program and then presents various applications of psychology to economics, including labor economics, methodology, consumer choice, and public economics.  The editor has included a single, consolidated bibliography, giving the reader a broad picture of the contributions to this new emerging field. Essays:1.  Introduction2.  Human Adaptability and Economic Surprise3.  Learning and Decision-Making in Economics and Psychology: A Methodological Perspective4.  On Psyching up Economics5.  Neoclassical Economics and the Psychology of Risk and Uncertainty6.  Prospects for Mathematical Psychological Economics7.  Subjectivism, Psychology, and the Modern Austrians8.  Subjectivism, Psychology, and the Modern Austrians: A Comment9.  Intervening Variables in Economics: An Explanation of Wage Behavior10.  The Psychological Economics of Conspicuous Consumption11.  Individualist Economics Without Psychology12.  Toward a Behavioral Analysis of Public Economics13.  Some Methods in Psychological Economics14.  Economics and Psychology: A Resurrection Story15.  On Being a Psychological Economist and Winning the Games Economists Play.Bibliography = 24 pages.

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