PSYC473-20S1 (C) Semester One 2020

The Individual in the Economy

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2020
End Date: Sunday, 21 June 2020
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 28 February 2020
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 29 May 2020

Description

The course examines how psychology may be applied to public sector decision-making, particularly with regard to financial issues. Topics may include decision-making; distributional justice; psychology of money; subjective well-being of society; valuation of government services; psychology of regulation; tax evasion; saving; psychology of unemployment; Why doesn't socialism work (or does it)?

Learning Outcomes

1) To explore ways in which psychological ideas and methods can enrich economic decisions, especially in the public sector. Some other names for the course are “decision-making”; “behavioural finance”; and “behavioural economics”.

2) This course may be useful preparation for those contemplating careers in public sector research or policy.

Prerequisites

Subject to the approval of the Head of Department. RP: Bachelor's degree

Recommended Preparation

Bachelor's degree

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Simon Kemp

Textbooks / Resources

NO SET TEXT BOOK; readings to be advised

Course links

Library portal

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,022.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing .

All PSYC473 Occurrences

  • PSYC473-20S1 (C) Semester One 2020