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ESRC Research Programme on Economic Beliefs and Behaviour

The ESRC is investing £ 1.4 million in a multi-disciplinary research programme involving economists, psychologists, sociologists, social policy experts and other social scientists. The work will be carried out in 17 university departments and research institutes in the U.K. and in collaboration with visiting experts from Europe and America.

The research will lead to:-

greater practical understanding of the questions raised by the increased importance of economic choice in everyday life, in such areas as saving for old age, wage-bargaining, entrepreneurship, home ownership and investment choices;

theoretical development in social science as a result of cross-fertilisation from different disciplines, and in particular a radical reformulation of the dominant approach to our understanding of how people behave in market society.

The programme will last for four years from June 1994. As the research proceeds, there will be a series of books, articles, workshops, seminars and conferences to ensure that the ideas generated by the programme achieve wide currency in the academic community and to bring the findings of the work home to government, business and interested members of the general public.

Background to the Programme

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