Review by Choice Review
Volume 2 is probably a better way to describe this book, because the second edition is not just an update of material in the first edition. There are 27 chapters, up from 21 in the first edition. All chapters are either entirely new or come from the first edition with major updates and/or extensions. Each chapter contains endnotes and a bibliography. The chapters are organized into seven sections. The index at the end of the volume is not as extensive as in the first edition. Authors come form nine European and North American countries, and all the authors, according to the introduction, "refer to themselves as psychologists, economic psychologists, environmental psychologists, behavioral and experimental psychologists, evolutionary economists, and psychologists, and simply behavioral psychologists." All authors (again according to the introduction) focus on empirical study of economic behavior, especially on synthetic as opposed to analytic aspects. The methods used vary and include experimental, social surveys and questionnaires, interviews, neurological investigations, and qualitative and cultural analysis. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. --David G. Ernsthausen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Review by Choice Review
