The structure and regulation of consumption and demand has recently become of great interest to sociologists and economists alike, and at the same time there is growing interest in trying to understand the patterns and drivers of technological innovation. This book brings together a range of...

The structure and regulation of consumption and demand has recently become of great interest to sociologists and economists alike, and at the same time there is growing interest in trying to understand the patterns and drivers of technological innovation. This book brings together a range of...

Intro -- Contents -- Figures and tables -- Series foreword -- Contributors -- 1 Innovation by demand? An introduction - Andrew McMeekin, Ken Green, Mark Tomlinson and Vivien Walsh -- 2 Social mechanisms generating demand: a review and manifesto - Alan Warde -- 3 There's more to the economics of...