Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 - Confronting Consumption -- I - The Consumption Angle -- 2 - Consumption and Its … - Commoditization: Consumption Efficiency and an Economy of Care and Connection -- II - Chains of Consumption -- 5 - Distancing …: Consumption and the Severing of Feedback -- 6 - Consumption and Environment in a Global Economy -- 7 - The Distancing of Waste …

. -- absolute and relative welfare ; income ; status consumption ; signaling model ; conspicuous consumption ; adaptation ; internal … neighbors and investigates whether status consumption is a way for newly arrived city dwellers to signal their social standing …. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of Kazakhstan we find that internal migrants earn an income and status …