The Dynamics of Consumer Behavior and the Transition to Sustainable Consumption Patterns

Strong growth in disposable income has driven, and is still driving, consumption to unprecedented,but not sustainable levels. To explain the dynamic interplay of needs, need satisfaction, andinnovation underlying that growth a behavioral theory of consumption is suggested and discussedwith respect to its implications for making a transition to more sustainable patterns of consumerbehavior.

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Year of publication:	2011-04-01
Authors:	Witt, Ulrich
Institutions:	Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung Evolutionsökonomik
Subject:	Innovation \| Nachhaltigkeit \| Wachstum \| Verbrauch

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Extent:	138240 bytes 11 p. application/pdf
Series:	Abteilung Evolutionsökonomik - Papers Papers on Economics and Evolution ; No. 103 (2011)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	A13 - Relation of Economics to Social Values ; B52 - Institutional; Evolutionary ; D01 - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles ; D03 - Behavioral Economics; Underlying Principles ; D11 - Consumer Economics: Theory ; Q50 - Environmental Economics. General ; Q56 - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounting ; Subject matter and research method of business administration ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; No country specification
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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