Networked Consumers in Economic Growth

Steven D. Silver

Chapter 7 in Networked Consumers, 2012, pp 137-157 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter, attention will turned to growth implications of consumption in networked consumers. The discourse in previous chapters has conceptualized effects of consumers as embedded in networks through the assortment of goods they use in personal consumption. Attention has been directed to the contributions that consumption activities can make to human capital and labor productivity. In this chapter, I elaborate on the observation that human capital of consumers can be augmented by activities in consumption as well as formal education in a growth context (e.g. Fahr 2005; Silver and Verbrugge 2010). Background studies in growth commonly use the designation of home or leisure activities for activities outside the workplace that consumers market goods. The term, home activities, will be used in the chapter to designate activities that use stocks of information and conventional goods.

Keywords: Human Capital; Personal Consumption; Home Activity; Transitional Dynamic; Fixed Budget (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-36255-0_7

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9780230362550

DOI: 10.1057/9780230362550_7

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().