The Dynamics of Consumer Behavior and the Transition to Sustainable Consumption Patterns

Ulrich Witt

Papers on Economics and Evolution from Philipps University Marburg, Department of Geography

Abstract: Strong growth in disposable income has driven, and is still driving, consumption to unprecedented, but not sustainable levels. To explain the dynamic interplay of needs, need satisfaction, and innovation underlying that growth a behavioral theory of consumption is suggested and discussed with respect to its implications for making a transition to more sustainable patterns of consumer behavior.

Keywords: consumption; growth; sustainability; satiation; innovation; welfare Length 10 pages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 B52 D01 D03 D11 Q50 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-04
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