Satiation of need is generally ignored by growth theory. I study a model where consumers may be satiated in any given good but new goods may be introduced. A social planner will never elect a trajectory with long-run satiation. Instead, he will introduce enough new goods to avoid such a...

Macht der Kapitalismus wenige reich und viele arm - oder immer mehr immer weniger arm? Nicht erst seit der Finanzkrise ist es wieder üblich geworden, den Kapitalismus für fast alle Übel der Welt verantwortlich zu machen. Dem setzt der Wirtschaftshistoriker Werner Plumpe die Geschichte des...

This book aims to develop innovation theory by focusing on innovation in a consumer society. In an advanced consumer society, services dominate and are provided through digital as well as physical channels by local, national and global firms. This book aims to identify the ways in which value...

Capitalism has made rationality into a pervasive feature of human action and yet, far from heralding a loss of emotionality, capitalist culture has been accompanied with an unprecedented intensification of emotional life. This raises a puzzle: how could we have become increasingly rationalized...

"Écrire l'histoire de la consommation en France, c'est raconter l'histoire de tous les Français : celle de nos grands ancêtres, de nos parents, de chacun d'entre nous. C'est aussi raconter l'histoire de la révolution matérielle qui s'est opérée sous l'influence des innovations techniques...

Das 20. Jahrhundert versprach Wohlstand und Aufstieg für alle. Aber die westlichen Gesellschaften lösten ihr Versprechen nicht ein. Immer mehr Menschen verlieren die Hoffnung auf ein besseres Leben. So sind wir nicht nur in eine politische und soziale, sondern vor allem moralische Krise...

Grundüberlegungen zu einer kritischen Verbraucherforschung / Christian Fridrich, Renate Hübner, Karl Kollmann, Michael-Burkhard Piorkowsky und Nina Tröger -- Menschen in der Arbeits-, Konsum- und Mediengesellschaft. Zur Vermachtung und Verschränkung der Lebensfelder bzw. Teilmärkte moderner...

Introduction: Consuming histories and creating economies -- A door "wide open" imagining Gold Coast markets -- "We cannot afford to be fooled." African intermediaries on shifting commercial terrain -- "In time for independence." Kingsway Department Store, modernity, and the new nation -- "Shop...

This ground-breaking book explores the points of convergence between corporate capitalism and terrorist practice. Assessing the increase in the number of terrorist attacks directed against commercial entities in urban areas, such as the Westgate mall in Nairobi or the Charlie Hebdo offices in...

Miura Atsushi draws on more than three decades of experience on the front lines of Japanese marketing research to track the four stages Japan's consumer society has traversed since th turn of the century to th present. Looking forward, he both documents the emergence of a new sharing society in...

What does a stockbroker in Istanbul navigating the rush of incoming trading figures have in common with a mother in Stockholm trying to organize a growing pile of baby clothes? They are both coping with excess or overflow. This book explores the ways in which institutions, corporations and...