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The British consumer co-operative movement
Pratt, G. V. J. - In: Yearbook of co-operative enterprise (1988), pp. 7-11
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Families as roommates: Changes in US household size from 1850 to 2000
Salcedo, Alejandrina; Schoellman, Todd; Tertilt, Michèle - 2010
The size of the average American household has fallen dramatically - from six in 1850 to three in 2000. To explain this decline we model households as collections of roommates who share the costs of household public goods. If private goods are more income elastic than public goods, as we...
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Vulnerability in a Stochastic Dynamic Model
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2003
Most measures of vulnerability are a-theoretic and essentially static. In this paper we use a stochastic Ramsey model to find a household's optimal welfare and we measure vulnerability as the shortfall from the welfare attained if the household consumed permanently at the poverty line. The...
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Heterogeneous life-cycle profiles, income risk and consumption inequality
Primiceri, Giorgio E.; van Rens, Thijs - 2007
Was the increase in income inequality in the US due to permanent shocks or merely to an increase in the variance of transitory shocks? The implications for consumption and welfare depend crucially on the answer to this question. We use CEX repeated cross-section data on consumption and income to...
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Externalities in rural development: Evidence for China
Ravallion, Martin - 2003
The paper tests for external effects of local economic activity on consumption and income growth at the farm household level using panel data from four provinces of post-reform rural China. The tests allow for nonstationary fixed effects in the consumption growth process. Evidence is found of...
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Time for action — towards sustainable consumption and production in Europe
Szlezak, Jozsef; Reichel, Almut - 2008
Summary report of the conference held on 27-29 September 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia. This report was prepared by the organisers of the conference 'Time for action — towards sustainable consumption and production in Europe'. Three sets of three top-priority recommendations towards sustainable...
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Making sustainable consumption and production a reality
Julien, Bruno (contributor) - 2009
This guide shows how a life cycle approach can be used to identify and reduce the environmental and health impacts of the products we use. It underlines the importance of considering these issues across the entire life cycle of a product and sets them within the context of policy development,...
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Narrative der ‚guten Ernährung‘: Ernährungsidentitäten und die Aneignung öffentlicher Nachhaltigkeitsdiskurse durch Konsument*innen
Krüger, Timmo; Strüver, Anke - In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie 62 (2018) 2-3, pp. 217-232
Im Bereich der Ernährung sind es ganz alltägliche und allgemein akzeptierte Produktions- und Konsumpraktiken, die zu Nachhaltigkeitsproblemen führen. Als Lösung gilt in öffentlichen Nachhaltigkeitsdiskursen die Kombination aus ‚grünem Wachstum‘ und verantwortungsbewussten...
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Lokaler Konsum bei Multilokalität
Petzold, Knut - In: Multilokale Lebensführungen und räumliche …, (pp. 160-165). 2020
zur Bedeutung von residentieller Mobilität für die lokale Orientierung und den lokalen Konsum identifizieren: eine … und von Personen in Fernbeziehung (LAT) mit dem nichtmobiler Personen verglichen. Lokal orientierter Konsum wurde als … Konsum von lokalen Alltagsprodukten, ökologischer Konsum, Medienkonsum und als große lokale Investitionen definiert …
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