This study examines the declining usage lifespan of household consumer durables in the United States between 1970 and 2018, situating the phenomenon within a heterodox political economy framework. While mainstream economic narratives attribute the rising rate of consumer durable waste over this...

Planned obsolescence is a practice that anticipates the entropy cycle of a product from an objective point of view or just from the consumer's perspective. Recent practices, especially in the electronic goods market, add a second type of obsolescence, caused after the goods are in the consumer's...

Der vorliegende Diskussionsbeitrag beschäftigt sich mit regulatorischen und politischen Ansätzen zur Verlängerung der Nutzungsdauer von Smartphones in Deutschland, anderen EU-Mitgliedsstaaten, den USA sowie auf EU-Ebene. Im Zuge eines steigenden Umwelt- und Nachhaltigkeitsbewusstseins rückt...

In this paper, we present international comparisons of potential output growth among several economies - Canada, the Euro area, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States - for the period 1991-2004. The main estimates rely on a structural approach...