Course and Causes of Collective Consumption Trends in the West

Andrea Boltho
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Andrea Boltho: University of Oxford

Chapter 7 in The Grants Economy and Collective Consumption, 1982, pp 135-158 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This paper looks at trends in collective consumption in fifteen developed OECD countries over the years 1950–6.* The introduction defines the concept of collective consumption which is adopted. The first section looks at trends through time and at the intercountry variability of the shares of collective consumption in GDP. The second section presents some tentative explanations for the rapid rise in these shares throughout the OECD area over the period under examination, while the conclusions summarise the findings and very briefly look at future prospects.

Keywords: Government Consumption; Postwar Period; Expenditure Share; Welfare Expenditure; Defence Expenditure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1982
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05377-3_7

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