We investigate the role discretionary (non-working) time plays in sustaining the gap between individuals’ concern about climate change and their propensity to act on this concern by adopting sustainable consumption practices. Using recent Australian survey data on climate change adaptation, we...

This paper revisits the welfare economics of fashion from the standpoint of evolutionary economics. Whilst accepting that fashion-focused consumption may have an element of status-seeking behaviour about it, which may be of questionable value in welfare terms, the paper emphasizes that fashion...