The evolution of consumption theories and practices
The theory of consumer choice fills the opening chapters of any micro-economic textbook. Yet, surprisingly, this position of privilege has not translated into a flourishing of economic research that is comparable to what has happened in other branches of economic reasoning. Starting with Menger, the...
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
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Bingley, U.K. :
Emerald,
2007.
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| Series | Advances in Austrian economics ;
v. 10. |
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| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9781849505093 |
| ISSN | 1529-2134 ; |
| DOI | 10.1016/S1529-2134(2007)10 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (280 p.). |
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Table of Contents:
- Cinema and TV : an empirical investigation of Italian consumers / Andrea Sisto, Roberto Zanola
- Smoke signals : adolescent smoking and school continuation / Philip J. Cook, Rebecca Hutchinson
- Fashion, growth and welfare : an evolutionary approach / Andreas Chai, Peter E. Earl, Jason Potts
- Fashion : why people like it and theorists do not / Luciano Andreozzi, Marina Bianchi
- Does context matter more for some goods than others? / Robert H. Frank
- From Carl Menger's theory of goods to an evolutionary approach to consumer behaviour / Wilhelm Ruprecht
- What shall I do? (or why consumer theory should focus on time-use and activities, rather than on commodities) / Ian Steedman
- Idiosyncratic learning, creative consumption and well-being / Marina Di Giacinto, Francesco Ferrante
- A shacklean approach to the demand for movies / John Sedgwick
- The evolution of entertainment consumption and the emergence of cinema, 1890-1940 / Gerben Bakker
- Introduction / Marina Bianchi.