This text demonstrates that the traditional rational choice model of economic behaviour is unsatisfactory in providing accounts of the way people choose in relation to work, saving, spending, investment and social welfare.

List of Tables Preface Notes on the Contributors Choice and the Public Policy Agenda; P. Taylor-Gooby Paying for Long-Term Care in the UK: Theory, Policy and Evidence; G. Parker & H. Clarke Entrepreneurial Activity in the Public Sector: Evidence from UK Primary Care; C. Ennew, T. Fieghan & D. Whynes British Asian Entrepreneurs: Culture and Opportunity Structures; T. Modood, H. Metcalf & S. Virdee What Drives Support for Higher Public Spending?; L. Brook, I. Preston & J. Hall Choices in Owner-Occupation; M. Munro, R. Madigan & C. Memery Impulsive and Excessive Buying Behaviour; H. Dittmar & J. Beattie Fair Pay and Pay Determination; J. Dickinson & L. Sell-Trujillo Morals and Markets: Some Theoretical and Policy Implications of Ethical Investing; A. Lewis, P. Webley, A. Winnett & C. Mackenzie Benefit Fraud and Citizenship; H. Dean Choice and the New Paradigm in Policy; P. Taylor-Gooby Appendix: Projects in the Economic Beliefs and Behaviour Programme

JANE BEATTIE sometime Lecturer in Experimental Psychology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex LINDSAY BROOK Research Director, Social and Community Planning Research HARRIET CLARKE Research Associate, Nuffield Community Care Studies Unit, University of Leicester JULIE DICKINSON Lecturer in Organizational Psychology, Birkbeck College HELGA DITTMAR Lecturer in Psychology, School of Social Sciences, University of Sussex CHRISTINE ENNEW Professor of Marketing, School of Management and Finance, University of Nottingham TERESA FIEGHAN is carrying out research in Ireland; formerly researcher, Department of Economics, University of Nottingham JOHN HALL Senior Research Economist, Institute for Fiscal Studies ALAN LEWIS Reader in Psychology and Director of the Centre for Economic Psychology CRAIG MACKENZIE Research Officer, School of Social Sciences, Bath University RUTH MADIGAN Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Glasgow CLODAGH MEMERY Researcher, Centre for Housing Research, University of Glasgow HILARY METCALF Head of Employment Studies, Policy Studies Institute TARIQ MODOOD Programme Director, Policy Studies Institute MOIRA MUNRO Professor of Planning and Housing, Heriot-Watt University GILLIAN PARKER Nuffield Professor of Community Care, University of Leicester IAN PRESTON Lecturer in Economics, University College London LUCIA SELL-TRUJILLO is completing doctoral research at Birkbeck College, London SATNAM VIRDEE Fellow, Ethnic Equality Group, PSI PAUL WEBLEY Reader in Economic Psychology, University of Exeter DAVID WHYNES Reader in Health Economics, University of Nottingham ADRIAN WINNETT Lecturer in Economics, Bath University