Cognitive Dissonance Theory and Consumption Policy

Jeffrey James
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Jeffrey James: Tilburg University

Chapter 10 in Consumption and Development, 1993, pp 199-222 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The niceties of the Becker/Stigler argument that individual preferences are the same and constant will be of little interest to the policymaker in a developing country whose task is to alter norms in areas such as health, nutrition, family planning and sanitation.1 In most such areas, those who formulate policy will have to confront what are often deep-seated and unyielding values, about which, as noted in the previous chapter, consumption theory of the Becker/Stigler variety has little or nothing to say.

Keywords: Family Planning; Attitude Change; Cognitive Dissonance; Family Planning Programme; Forced Compliance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22658-0_10

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