This paper posits that significant changes in 19th century British recreational travel patternsresulted from a change in the manner in which tourists used entertaining stimuli in order to attain pleasure.Consumers no longer merely viewed arousing stimuli, but attempted to use them to produce...

This paper revisits Ernst Engel's (1857) original article in which he systematically in-vestigated the relationship between consumption expenditure and income. While he ismainly remembered today for the discovery of Engel's law, we highlight how Engel ad-dressed in a particular way the issue of...

Certain properties of Engel curves have been linked to the occurrence of structural changein the economy (Pasinetti 1981, Metcalfe et al. 2006, Saviotti 2001). From an empiricalperspective, however, very little has been done to examine (i) whether indeed satiation isa general property of Engel...