Mental Accounts and Water Prices

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2023-07-05 DOI:10.1142/s2382624x23710029

Ching Leong

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Abstract

Raising the price of municipal water services is highly fraught in many countries due to the political pressures to keep water bills affordable. As a result, most countries fail to recover the full costs of water provision, a problem made worse by an underestimation of the real cost of providing water. The case of Singapore illustrates that this problem is in part due to “mental accounting,” which is consistent with Lasswell’s concept of an “intelligence function.” Situating an understanding of this intelligence function within the Singapore water case gives a better understanding of the reluctance to raise water prices.

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心理账户与水价

在许多国家，由于保持水费负担得起的政治压力，提高市政供水服务的价格非常令人担忧。因此，大多数国家未能收回供水的全部成本，由于低估了供水的实际成本，这一问题变得更加严重。新加坡的案例表明，这个问题部分是由于“心理会计”，这与拉斯韦尔的“情报职能”概念一致。将对这一情报职能的理解放在新加坡的水案中，可以更好地理解不愿提高水价的情况。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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