Poor families around the world spend a large fraction of their income on consumption of goods that appear to be useless … consumption patterns seem to be related to the persistence of poverty. We offer an explanation for this observation, based on a … trade-off between conspicuous consumption and human capital as signals for unobserved income, under the assumption that …

This paper presents a visual perspective on consumption. Following the interpretive turn in management and marketing … scholarship, my research on the production and consumption of images draws from art history, photography, and visual studies to … as foundational elements of consumption as I turn to an array of research from disciplines concerned with image and …