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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

La quatrième de couverture indique : "Une nation est le produit du travail accompli par ceux qui la constituent. Mais nous avons fini par oublier que nous sommes des travailleurs avant d'être des consommateurs. Bercés par les illusions d'une société ludique et abondante, souvent déçus par...

"In About Canada: The Environment, award-winning author Linda Pannozzo takes us on a whirlwind tour of the philosophical, economic, and ideological landscape forming the backdrop for our current environmental worldview. She makes the connections between our faith in the free market, our...