Consumption as an Investment
| Year of publication: |
2004
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| Authors: | Perrotta, Cosimo |
| Publisher: |
London : Routledge |
| Subject: | Investition | Investment | Privater Konsum | Private consumption | Konsum | Consumption | Konsumentenverhalten | Consumer behaviour | Volkswirtschaftliche Investitionstheorie | Theory of aggregate investment |
| Description of contents: |
This book explores and charts the changing place of consumption as a source of investment in production and growth within economic writings from ancient history to the present
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| Extent: | Online-Ressource (399 p.) |
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| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the legacy of the past; The Ancients and inner wealth; Patristics: end of the contempt for wealth and labour; Medieval dualism: poverty as an ideal; wealth as a practical goal; Italian humanism ignores economic development; From alms to human capital: the poor in sixteenth century Spain and England; Spain's unproductive consumption; Expanding production: a (fearful) hunger for goods; Productive and unproductive labour; Foreign trade: fostering productive consumption/productive labour The Enlightenment theory of development: consumption as an investmentNotes; References; Subject index; Name index; |
| ISBN: | 978-0-415-30619-5 ; 978-0-203-69457-2 ; 978-0-415-30619-5 |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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