The terminology employed to explore consumption ethics, the counterpart to business ethics, is increasingly varied not least because consumption has become a central discourse and area of investigation across disciplines (e.g. Graeber, 2011). Rather than assuming interchangeability, we argue...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Toward an Interdisciplinary Science of Consumption -- Evolutionary Perspectives -- 1 Reciprocity in Primates -- 2 The Fundamental Motives for Why We Buy -- 3 The Evolutionary Instincts of Homo consumericus -- 4 Myopia, Hyperbolic Discounting, and...

This paper introduces a framework to facilitate an interdisciplinary analysis of 'competition'. While such an interdisciplinary analysis can be justified by referencing the various fields of social and economic life in which 'competition' is important, three challenges are found to aggravate...