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Ramachandran, Vimala; Pal, Madhumita; Jain, Sharada; … - eSocialSciences - 2006

This paper is based on a recent study on teacher motivation in India, which is part of an international research project on this topic covering 12 countries in South Asia and Africa. This study is based on review of government data, policy documents and published material on India and interviews...

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Economics, Gratitude, and Warm Glow

Amegashie, J. Atsu - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2006

People feel a sense of gratitude when they receive gifts, transfers, or assistance. Based on psychological literature, I argue that gratitude is different from standard notions of reciprocity. Indeed, people derive utility from in-kind transfers (i.e., feel grateful), even if they do not like or...

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Developments in behavioral finance and experimental economics and Post Keynesian finance theory

Fung, Matthew V. - In: Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 29 (2006) 1, pp. 19-39

Keynes drew upon psychology in developing his economic theories, and researchers in behavioral finance have integrated … psychology into the study of how investors make financial decisions. Another group of researchers, experimental economists …, tested some remarks of Keynes on the psychology of economic actors in specifically designed experiments. Some research in …

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Behavioural Decisions and Welfare

Dalton, Patricio; Ghosal, Sayantan - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2008

We study decision problems where (a) preference parameters are defined to include psychological/moral considerations and (b) there is a feedback effect from chosen actions to preference parameters. In a standard decision problem the chosen action is required to be optimal when the feedback...

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Experimental evidence of the importance of gender pairing in bargaining

Sutter, Matthias; Bosman, Ronald; Kocher, Martin; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2003

derived from evolutionary psychology and social role theory, we find that (1) gender per se has no significant effect on …

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Psychological Contracts, OCB and Customer service: An Exploratory Examination.

Blancero, D.; Johnson, S.; Lakshman, C. - Cornell - Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies - 1995

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World’s Economy: what is money? Physicist’s approach to tendencies in world’s economy

Zeps, Dainis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

We run economy not knowing rules of what we are running. Commonwealth maybe should be allowed to functionate under its own rules that should be discovered, similar to these in physics or biology. By the way, quantity value of what money measures should be discovered too. Greed in whatever...

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Psychological Testing in Personnel Selection.

Venne, R.A. - Queen's at Kingston - Sch. of Indus. Relat. Research … - 1987

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Alexis de Tocqueville: the Psychologist of Equality.

Lom, P. - European Institute - Political and Social Sciences - 1999

In this paper, the author writes about Alexis de Tocqueville and his implication in the debate in the apparent tension between liberty and equality. Alexis de Tocqueville thinks that a new political science would no longer be necessary at all.

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FSC Certification in Japan: An Uncertain Future.

Kajiwara, A. - 2000

insights from concepts and theories provided from the disciplines of sociology, social psychology, economics, and …

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