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Sustainable consumption and consumer sovereignty
Schubert, Christian; Chai, Andreas - 2012
violating CS. This extends the range of normatively acceptable sustainability policies. -- Consumer Behavior ; Consumer Welfare … ; Evolutionary Economics ; Sustainability ; Consumer Sovereignty …
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A constitutional economics perspective on soft paternalism
Schnellenbach, Jan - 2015
verfassungsökonomischen Theorie abgeleitet. Im Ergebnis zeigt sich, dass der sogenannte „weiche“ Paternalismus nur in sehr seltenen Fällen …
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A note on moral licensing and foot-in-the-door effect
Ulph, Alistair; Panzone, Luca; Hilton, Denis J. - 2019
Literature in economics and psychology on moral behaviour explores the contexts in which people act in ways that are consistent or inconsistent with their past actions. Such inconsistencies appear to violate economists' assumption of rational consumer behaviour. In this note we show that a...
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Policies for Green Consumer
Ushifusa, Yoshiaki - 2014
This paper examines policies to increase the number of environmentally-friendly consumers using models of Arora and Gangopadhyay (1995) and Bansal and S. Gangopadhyay (2003). In our model it is assumed that consumers' enrironmentally awareness or willingness to pay for eco-products depend on...
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A Dynamic Self-Regulation Model of Sustainable Consumer Behaviour
Ulph, Alistair - 2018
There is a significant literature in economics and psychology on moral behaviour exploring the contexts in which people act in ways that are consistent or inconsistent with their earlier actions, where consistency involves behaviour that is in line with a previous action (e.g. foot-in-the-door...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012928956
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Informing the uninformed, sensitizing the informed : the two sides of consumer environmental awareness
Brécard, Dorothée; Chiroleu-Assouline, Mireille - 2025
How do environmental information and awareness interact to improve environmental quality by changing consumer behavior and firm strategies? This article provides theoretical insights using an original differentiation model within a general framework whose specific cases have been studied...
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The impact of market innovations on the evolution of norms : the sustainability case
Müller, Stephan; Wangenheim, Georg von - 2014
That institutions matter is widely accepted among economists and so are social norms as an important category of informal institutions. Social norms matter in many economic situations, but in particular for markets. The economic literature has studied the interrelation between markets and social...
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The impact of market innovations on the evolution of norms : the sustainability case ; conference paper
Müller, Stephan; Wangenheim, Georg von - 2014
That institutions matter is widely accepted among economists and so are social norms as an important category of informal institutions. Social norms matter in many economic situations, but in particular for markets. The economic literature has studied the interrelation between markets and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488545
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Greening Household Behaviour and Food
Millock, Katrin - 2014
This report focuses on households’ behaviour in relation to food consumption. It presents the results of follow-up econometric analysis of the 2011 OECD Survey on Environmental Policy and Individual Behaviour Change (EPIC). This report complements the overview of the survey data provided in...
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Should we sustain? : and if so, sustain what? ; consumption or the quality of life?
Llavador, Humberto G.; Roemer, John E.; Silvestre, Joaquim - 2012
Sustainability has been largely replaced by discounted utilitarianism in contemporary climate-change economics. Our … approach rejuvenates sustainability by expanding the conception of the quality of life, along the lines of the UN Human … substituting consumption for the quality of life. Our sustainability results carry over. As it should be expected, optimal …
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