Shop Until You Drop: the Unexpected Effects of Anticonsumerism and Environmentalism

Giovanni Maccarrone, Marco Marini and Ornella Tarola

No 2023.01, Working Papers from Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei

Abstract: In an economy where consumers are heterogeneous in their preferences over the hedonic and environmental attributes of goods on sale, we explore the effects of anti-consumerism and environmentalism. We show that when the environmental attributes of products come at the expense of the hedonic attributes, a higher supply of anti-consumerism and environmentalism yields the expected positive effect on the environment. In contrast, when hedonic and environmental attributes are jointly met by a good, higher levels of anti-consumerism and environmentalism negatively affect the society’s environmental footprint. Moreover, the impact of anti-consumerism and environmentalism on social welfare is far from being obvious, giving rise to unexpected redistributive effects between firms and consumers.

Keywords: Environmentalism; Hedonism; Anti-consumerism; Hedonic and environmental product attributes; Vertical product differentiation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D11 L13 Q50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-02
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