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Economic Motives : A Study in the Psychological Foundations of Economic Theory, with Some Reference to Other Social Sciences /

Dickinson, Zenas Clark

Economic Motives : A Study in the Psychological Foundations of Economic Theory, with Some Reference to Other Social Sciences / Zenas Clark Dickinson. - 2nd printing 1924. Reprint 2014 - 1 online resource (304 p.) - Harvard Economic Studies ; 24 .

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- PART I. INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL APPROACH -- CHAPTER I. HUMAN NATURE IN ECONOMICS -- CHAPTER II. COMMON-SENSE ANALYSIS OF MOTIVES -- CHAPTER III ASSOCIATIONIST-HEDONISM : ARISTOTLE, HOBBES -- CHAPTER IV. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ADAM SMITH -- CHAPTER V. THE UTILITARIAN PSYCHOLOGY: JEREMY BENTHAM -- CHAPTER VI. UTILITARIAN PSYCHOLOGY: THE TWO MILLS AND BAIN -- PART II. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF MOTIVES -- CHAPTER VII. THE NEWER POINT OF VIEW IN PSYCHOLOGY -- CHAPTER VIII. INSTINCTS, APTITUDES AND APPETITES, IN GENERAL -- CHAPTER IX. THE HUMAN INSTINCTS AND APTITUDES -- CHAPTER Χ. EMOTION, PLEASURE AND PAIN -- CHAPTER XI. THE LEARNING PROCESS -- CHAPTER XII. LEARNING, REASONING AND RATIONALITY -- CHAPTER XIII. HOW MAY NEW MOTIVES BE INSTILLED? -- PART III. SOME APPLICATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGY TO PROBLEMS OF ECONOMIC THEORY -- CHAPTER XIV. THE PRESENT STATE OF ECONOMIC PSYCHOLOGY -- CHAPTER XV. APPLICATIONS TO ECONOMIC WANTS -- CHAPTER XVI. UTILITY AND COST -- CHAPTER XVII. PSYCHOLOGY OF THE VALUATION PROCESS -- CHAPTER XVIII. PSYCHOLOGY IN SAVING -- CHAPTER XIX. WORK -- INDEX

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9780674336780 9780674287846

10.4159/harvard.9780674287846 doi


Economics--Psychological aspects.
Economics.
Psychologie.
Psychology.
Wirtschaft.
Wirtschaftspsychologie.
Économie politique.
Economics.
Psychology.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General.

HB74.P8 / .D535 1922eb

330.019