Consumption

Luigino Bruni ()

A chapter in A Lexicon of Social Well-Being, 2015, pp 25-28 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The centrality of consumption is a fact of our society that is neither new nor typical. What is rather new and important, however, is our inability to grasp the pervasiveness of the culture of consumption and income, an unfortunate common feature of many a fallen civilization. The phenomenon of consumption has very ancient roots, and in general that is a good thing because when consumption goods are denied, rights and freedoms are denied, too.

Keywords: Moral Quality; Poverty Trap; Huge Investment; Positional Good; Positional Consumption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137528889_7

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