Understanding Economic Behaviour.

Abstract

to the Volume.- I: Economic Factors and Individual Satisfaction.- National Wealth and Individual Happiness.- Beliefs about Attainment of Life Satisfaction as Determinants of Preferences for Everyday Activities.- Need for Achievement and Entrepreneurial Activity in Small Firms.- The Kibbutz and Private Property.- II: Inflation, Unemployment, and Taxation.- Perceptions of Inflation.- Cross-Sectional Evidence on the Rationality of the Mean and Variance of Inflation Expectations.- The Perceived Causal Structure of Unemployment.- A Cross-National Comparison of Attitudes, Personality, Behaviour, and Social Comparison in Tax Evasion Experiments.- Perception and Judgment of Marginal Tax Rates After a Tax Reduction.- III: Utility and Decision Theory.- Beyond the Expected Utility Proposition in Rational Decision Making.- Levels of Aspiration, Promises, and the Possibility of Revaluation.- Another Attitude Towards Multi-Attribute Attitude Theories.- Application of the Valence-Instrumentality-Expectancy and Multiattribute Utility Models in the Prediction of Worker Effort.- Prediction of Preference Reversals by the Linearized Moments Model.- Economic Man or Social Man - Exploring Free Riding in the Production of Collective Goods.- IV: Consumer Behaviour.- From the Consumption of Necessities to Experience-Seeking Consumption.- Personality Traits as Elements in a Model of Eating Behaviour.- The Values and Consumer Behaviour - Some Empirical Findings From Austria.- Understanding Children's Economic Socialization.- A Model of Consumer Behaviour in the Situation of Shortages.- V: New Views on Economic Analysis.- The Quantitative Analysis of Economic Behavior With Laboratory Animals.- Subjectivism in Economics - A Suggested Reorientation.