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Problems to be solved in people’s personal and social lives usually do not fit the boundaries of scientific disciplines well even if the development of those disciplines originally was stimulated by difficulties in providing food and shelter, securing health, protecting against crimes, strengthening the national power, facilitating trade and commerce, making sense of human life, etc. Disciplines in natural and social sciences, although at the beginning often installed and promoted primarily by practical needs, tend soon to narrow their scope in order to get a deeper theoretical understanding of segments of all too complex reality, or in order to develop a specialized technology for improving some components of the people’s situation, irrespective of their interdependence with all the other components.
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Brandstätter, H., Güth, W. (1994). Introduction to Essays on Economic Psychology. In: Brandstätter, H., Güth, W. (eds) Essays on Economic Psychology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48621-0_1
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