Consumer Economic Wellbeing

• Main Author: Xiao, Jing Jian (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: International Series on Consumer Science,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Medical research.; Social policy.; Quality of life.; Industrial psychology.; Social Sciences.; Quality of Life Research.; Industrial, Organisational and Economic Psychology.; Social Policy.

This timely text overviews theories, concepts, and contexts relating to the emerging field of behavioral economics. Research theories and data gathered across psychology, sociology, marketing, finance, and other relevant disciplines are synthesized to identify and elaborate on the defining aspects o...

Table of Contents:

• I. Basic concepts
• Consumer wellbeing
• Consumer behavior theories
• II. Consumer environments
• Government regulations
• Business responses
• Media influences
• III. Consumer economic issues
• Consumer earning
• Consumer spending
• Consumer borrowing
• Consumer saving
• IV. Special topics
• Politics and consumer well-being
• Technology and consumer wellbeing
• Human development and consumer wellbeing
• Family relations and consumer well-being
• Cultures and consumer wellbeing
• Social class and consumer wellbeing.