ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book outlines a way of thinking about the development of children's economic behaviour in Western consumer societies. It presents an analysis of the development of a behaviour—saving—that has a historically determined meaning and a conditional value. The book discusses the issues surrounding children's thinking about the value of actions, their attitudes to saving, their adoption and articulation of strategies and the historical development of ideologies and the social transmission of representations. The book argues that the first stage in the construction of a new developmental economic psychology is to place the meaning of the "economic" within its proper cultural and historical context. It explains an integral developmental economic psychology. The book looks at both the formal and the functional significance of economic thought and action.
