Sustainable consumption : multi-disciplinary perspectives in honour of Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta /
This edited volume draws upon Sir Partha Dasgupta's recent work on consumption, with contributions from leading international experts from a range of disciplines. It explores the changes we need to make to consumption, production, and distribution patterns in order to address environmental and...
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Sustainable Consumption: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives In Honour of Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta; Copyright; Dedication to Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; 1: Introduction; 1.1 Rationale for this Book; 1.2 The Simplest Economists' Model of Consumption; 1.3 Extensions of the Simple Economists' Model of Consumption; 1.4 Challenging the Assumption that Individual Consumers always Behave Rationally; 1.5 Looking beyond the Individual Consumer: Socio-cultural Explanations of Consumption
- 1.6 Towards a More Integrated Understanding of Sustainable Consumption1.6.1 Conceptual Synergies; 1.6.2 Empirical Testing of Consumer Behaviour; 1.6.3 Policy implications; References; Part I: Extensions of the Simple Economists' Model of Consumption; 2: Sustainability and the Determinants of Personal Consumption; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Economic Evaluation; 2.2.1 Consumption and Well-Being; 2.2.2 Policy Analysis and Sustainability Analysis; 2.2.3 The Idea of Sustainable Development; 2.2.4 Wealth; 2.3 Unravelling the Productive Base; 2.3.1 Classification of Assets; 2.3.2 Knowledge; 2.3.3 Time
- 2.3.4 Institutions2.4 Shadow Prices; 2.4.1 Externalities; 2.4.2 Scarcity and Time; 2.4.3 Estimating Shadow Prices; 2.4.4 Common Misconception; 2.4.5 Net Domestic Product and the Bounds of Consumption; 2.5 Eliciting Well-Being; 2.5.1 Direct and Indirect Methods; 2.5.2 Happiness Surveys; 2.5.3 Stated and Revealed Preferences; 2.5.4 Human Traits; 2.6 Consumer Motivation, 1: Autonomous Effects; 2.6.1 The Egotist; 2.6.2 Unidirectional Externalities in the Acquisition of Taste; 2.7 Consumer Motivation, 2: Social Externalities; 2.7.1 Competitive Consumption
- 2.7.2 Social Consumption, 1: Fads, Fashions, and Relational Goods2.7.3 Social Consumption, 2: Solidarity Goods; 2.7.4 Social Consumption, 3: Social Identity; 2.7.5 Implications for Sustainability; 2.8 Non-linearities and Externalities; Appendix 1: Wealth as Criterion Function in Economic Evaluation; Appendix 2: The Basis of Economic Forecasts; Appendix 3; A3.1 Inadequacy of GDP; References; 3: The Value to the Environmental Movement of the New Literature on the Economics of Happiness; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Evidence about the World; 3.3 Possible Concerns; 3.4 Recent Findings; 3.5 Conclusions