The Psychology Of Money And Public Finance Psychology Of Money And Public Finance Book

List of Tables     vii
List of Figures     ix
Gunter Schmolders and Economic Psychology: an Introduction   Bjorn Frank   Erich Kirchler     1
Methodology: the long way towards empirical research     2
Plan of the book     4
Schmolders and public finance today     6
Acknowledgements     13
References     13
Economic Psychology$dEditors' remarks     17
Man as a social being     17
A contrasting programme to rational theory     26
Introduction     26
From historicism to prediction     32
Borrowed from psychology?     35
Socio-economic behaviour research     39
The Private Household     49
How money is managed in private households     49
The head of the house and the housewife     49
Joint preferences     56
Income as a characteristic and a determining cause of behaviour in households     62
Thrift     69
Rationality and the household budget     77
The goals of household budget management     85
A behavioural approach to monetary theory     89
Introduction     89
The theoryof money     90
Monetary theory and empirical research     93
Consequences for monetary theory and policy     116
Level of aspiration and consumption standard: some general findings (with Bemd Bievert)     124
The Entrepreneur     136
Entrepreneurial behaviour     136
The entrepreneur in the economy and in the society of the Federal Republic of Germany     149
Psychology of Taxation and Public Finance     157
Fiscal psychology: a new branch of public finance     157
Tax morale and tax resistance     164
Tax justice     178
The German tax mentality     186
Tax mentality in international comparison - an overview     192
A theory of incentive taxation in the process of economic development     198
Psychology and Macroeconomics     211
The problem of economic prognosis     211
The liquidity theory of money     219
Notes     229
Index     246