The dynamics of consumer behavior and the transition to sustainable consumption patterns

Ulrich Witt

Strong growth in disposable income has driven, and is still driving, consumption to unprecedented, but not sustainable levels. To explain the dynamic interplay of needs, need satisfaction, and innovation underlying that growth a behavioral theory of consumption is suggested and discussed with respect to its implications for making a transition to more sustainable patterns of consumer behavior. -- consumption ; growth ; sustainability ; satiation ; innovation ; welfare

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Year of publication:	2011
Authors:	Witt, Ulrich
Publisher:	Jena : Max-Planck-Inst. für Ökonomik
Subject:	Konsumentenverhalten \| Consumer behaviour \| Wirtschaftswachstum \| Economic growth \| Bedürfnisse \| Needs \| Innovation \| Nachhaltige Entwicklung \| Sustainable development \| Theorie \| Theory

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: 10 S., 135,55 KB)
Series:	Papers on economics and evolution. - Jena : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ZDB-ID 2195051-9. - Vol. 1103
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat Reader
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/57564 [Handle]
Classification:	A13 - Relation of Economics to Social Values ; B52 - Institutional; Evolutionary ; D01 - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles ; D03 - Behavioral Economics; Underlying Principles ; D11 - Consumer Economics: Theory ; Q50 - Environmental Economics. General ; Q56 - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounting
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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