Comparing interacting particles systems to celular automata traffic flow models

International audienceno abstrac

Comparing interacting particles systems to celular automata traffic flow models

International audienceno abstrac

Comparing interacting particles systems to celular automata traffic flow models

International audienceno abstrac

A study of economic socialisation: Financial practices in the home and the preferred role of schools among parents with children under 16

205 male and female parents with children under 16 years of age from a national UK quota sample, completed questionnaires about financial interaction with their children in the home, and the preferred role for schools in enhancing practical economic competencies. Altogether respondents were asked about 19 finance-related activities: most parents engage children in the home by providing pocket money and piggy banks to promote saving, as well as opening bank accounts for them. Financial activities were more common in professional families with older children. Large majorities felt that schools should not only be providing careers advice but also how to manage personal finances, to teach how a bank operates and the appropriate use of credit and debit cards. Parents in semi-skilled and unskilled manual occupations saw less need for schools to provide personal finance education. These results are discussed in connection with previous literature and with regard to future research and educational practice

A psicologia econômica como resposta ao individualismo metodológico

This paper aims at presenting and discussing some of behavioral models developed by Economic Psychology which is considered an irrelevant field of research for many economists yet. On highlighting the multidisciplinary convergence notably from economists' interests by psychology, it is done emphasis to the discussion of the role played by methodological individualism in the psychological reduction of the homo economicus. Such a reduction has, on the one hand, made harder the conciliation between the individual and the collective level of analysis. On the other hand, it made closer economists and psychologists in the common interest of developing methods capable of understanding the economic behavior under a perspective which allows the integration of the complexity of collective dimension in which the individual makes part