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This volume presents selected papers from the 7th Annual Consumer Culture Theory Conference held at Oxford University in August, 2012. The 18 papers in the volume together capture the latest research within this qualitative paradigm of consumer studies. Topics addressed cover a wide gamut including immigrant consumption experiences, gift-giving, sharing, transgressive gender roles, attachments to special possessions in online games and real life, the homeless consumer experience, disposition of possessions, privacy, metaphor analysis, sustainable consumption, alcohol consumption, cosmetics usage, and the negative consequences of sponsoring children in the less affluent world.

Consumer behavior --- Congresses --- Consommateurs --- Comportement --- Congrès --- Consumer behavior. --- Human behavior. --- Action, Human --- Behavior, Human --- Ethology --- Human action --- Human beings --- Human biology --- Physical anthropology --- Psychology --- Social sciences --- Psychology, Comparative --- Behavior, Consumer --- Buyer behavior --- Decision making, Consumer --- Human behavior --- Consumer profiling --- Market surveys --- Behavior --- E-books --- Business & Economics --- Market research. --- Advertising. --- Consumer Behavior. --- Marketing --- Research. --- General. --- Consumer behavior - Congresses

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An in-depth look at how to account for the human complexities at the heart of today's financial system Our economy may have recovered from the Great Recession--but not our economics. In The End of Theory, Richard Bookstaber discusses why the human condition and the radical uncertainty of our world renders the standard economic model--and the theory behind it--useless for dealing with financial crises. What model should replace it? None. At least not any version we've been using for the past two hundred years. Instead, Bookstaber argues for a new approach called agent-based economics, one that takes as a starting point the fact that we are humans, not the optimizing automatons that standard economics assumes we are. Bookstaber's groundbreaking paradigm promises to do a far better job at preventing crises and managing those that break out. As he explains, our varied memories and imaginations color our economic behavior in unexpected hues. Agent-based modeling embraces these nuances by avoiding the mechanistic, unrealistic structure of our current economic approach. Bookstaber tackles issues such as radical uncertainty, when circumstances take place beyond our anticipation, and emergence, when innocent, everyday interactions combine to create sudden chaos. Starting with the realization that future crises cannot be predicted by the past, he proposes an approach that recognizes the human narrative while addressing market realities. Sweeping aside the historic failure of twentieth-century economics, The End of Theory offers a novel and innovative perspective, along with a more realistic and human framework, to help prevent today's financial system from blowing up again.

E-books --- Human behavior --- 330.3 --- Human biology --- Physical anthropology --- Psychology --- Social sciences --- Psychology, Comparative --- Action, Human --- Behavior, Human --- Ethology --- Human action --- Human beings --- Methode in staathuishoudkunde. Statische, dynamische economie. Modellen. Experimental economics --- Behavior --- Methodology of economics --- Business & economics / economics / theory. --- Business & economics / finance. --- Financial crises --- Economics. --- Human behavior. --- Forecasting. --- Financial crises - Forecasting --- Business failures - Great Britain --- Economics --- Business failures

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AA / International- internationaal --- 201 --- 330.52 --- 174 --- Sociologie: algemeenheden. --- Liberaal systeem. Neo-liberalisme. Theorie van de onderhandeling. --- Verband tussen de ethiek en de economie. Ethiek en bedrijf. --- Capitalism --- Sociobiology. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Sociobiology --- Biologism --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Verband tussen de ethiek en de economie. Ethiek en bedrijf --- Sociologie: algemeenheden --- Liberaal systeem. Neo-liberalisme. Theorie van de onderhandeling --- Human biology --- Human evolution --- Psychology, Comparative --- Social evolution --- Social aspects

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Each of us has a preferred way of relating to others. It's called our 'behavioral style.' Understanding and adapting to different behavioral styles is an important key to boosting your chances for success in any field. The truth is most of us don't try very hard to understand others. We scratch our heads in puzzlement at those who are unlike us, and then we move along-pretty much resigned to the fact that a lot of people are just, well, different. So, we ignore them or deal with them as little as possible, often to our detriment. But when we fail to understand others, when we just assume they ought to be more like us, we create tension and discomfort-'personality conflicts.' You can reduce or eliminate those conflicts by learning to understand behavioral styles, including your own. In this 15-page report, you'll learn about adaptability skills that can have a tremendous impact in your life. Adaptability helps improve productivity, increase sales, promote better customer relations, maximize your strengths, and in general, help you to enjoy a fuller, more successful life. Topics covered include: A quick quiz to assess your level of adaptability with others What is The Platinum Rule? The four behavioral styles How to identify someone's style Demystifying compatibility How to jumpstart your adaptability.

Adaptability (Psychology) --- Personality. --- Human behavior. --- Interpersonal relations. --- Social Sciences --- Psychology --- Human relations --- Interpersonal relationships --- Personal relations --- Relations, Interpersonal --- Relationships, Interpersonal --- Social behavior --- Social psychology --- Object relations (Psychoanalysis) --- Action, Human --- Behavior, Human --- Ethology --- Human action --- Human beings --- Human biology --- Physical anthropology --- Social sciences --- Psychology, Comparative --- Personal identity --- Personality psychology --- Personality theory --- Personality traits --- Personology --- Traits, Personality --- Individuality --- Persons --- Self --- Temperament --- Adaptation (Psychology) --- Adaptive behavior --- Flexibility (Psychology) --- Malleability (Psychology) --- Personality --- Adjustment (Psychology) --- Behavior --- Human behavior --- Interpersonal relations --- E-books

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"Applies the psychological insights of behavioral economics to economic concepts such as moral hazard, deadweight loss, and incidence. Explores how deviations from the standard economic model of decisionmaking--imperfect optimization, bounded self-control, and nonstandard preferences--might affect public finance policy regarding externalities, information asymmetries, poverty, and taxes"--Provided by publisher.

Public economics --- Finance, Public --- Economics --- Human behavior --- Psychological aspects --- Decision making --- Economic aspects --- AA / International- internationaal --- 336.00 --- 321.2 --- 305.6 --- Organisatie van de overheidsfinanciën. Overheidsuitgaven en -inkomsten: algemeenheden --- Economisch beleid van de overheid. --- Risicotheorie, speltheorie. Risicokapitaal. Beslissingsmodellen. --- Action, Human --- Behavior, Human --- Ethology --- Human action --- Human beings --- Human biology --- Physical anthropology --- Psychology --- Social sciences --- Psychology, Comparative --- Cameralistics --- Public finance --- Currency question --- Behavioral economics --- Behavioural economics --- Risicotheorie, speltheorie. Risicokapitaal. Beslissingsmodellen --- Economisch beleid van de overheid --- Behavior --- Public finances --- Finance, Public - Psychological aspects --- Economics - Psychological aspects --- Finance, Public - Decision making --- Human behavior - Economic aspects