New Books from Psychology Press and Routledge

July-September 2012

Behavioral Economics

  1. Behavioural Economics and Finance

    By Michelle Baddeley

    Series: Routledge Advanced Texts in Economics and Finance

    Standard models in economics and finance usually assume that people are rational, self-interested maximisers, effectively co-ordinated via the invisible hand of the price mechanism. Whilst these approaches produce tractable, simple models, they cannot fully capture the uncertainties and...

    Published September 3rd 2012 by Routledge

  2. The Rhetoric of the Right

    Language Change and the Spread of the Market

    By David George

    Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

    This study seeks to demonstrate the subtle ways in which changes in the language associated with economic issues are reflective of a gradual but quantifiable conservative ideological shift. In this rigorous analysis, David George uses as his data a century of word usage within The New York Times,...

    Published August 5th 2012 by Routledge