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& Value Added: The article contributes to the sustainable consumption theory by developing new theoretical construction that …
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, die sowohl die Trickle-down-Theorie als auch die Theorie des privatisierten Keynesianismus bei diesem Thema entfalten … signalisieren soll, sondern vielmehr dazu dient, den Lebensstandard auf eher dezente Weise zu erhöhen. Ausgehend von der Vorstellung …, dass private Verschuldung die Lücke zwischen Einkommen und einem sozial konstruierten Lebensstandard schließen soll …
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Vulnerability to scarcity or to reduction of natural capital depends on defensive substitution possibilities that, in turn, are affected by the availability of other productive factors. However, in several developing countries asset distribution tends to be highly skewed. Taking into ac- count...
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"Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits explores how to enhance peoples' chances to live a good life in a world of ecological and social limits. Rejecting familiar recitations of problems of ecological decline and planetary boundaries, this compact book instead...
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standard of living in Poland and Armenia. Both countries belonged to the Eastern bloc with centrally planned economies, which …
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In the U.S., analyses of poverty rates and the effects of anti-poverty programs rely almost exclusively on income data. In earlier work (Meyer and Sullivan, 2003) we emphasized that conceptual arguments generally favor using consumption data to measure the well-being of the poor, and, on...
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The accepted view among psychologists and economists alike is that economic well-being has a statistically significant but only weak effect on happiness/subjective well-being (SWB). This view is based almost entirely on weak relationships with household income. The paper uses household economic...
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