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The volume focuses on the demand side phenomena of the soaring economic growth of the past few centuries. Growth theory has basically ignored the massive changes that occur here: the huge increase in the variety of products and services and the growing specialization in consumption behavior. The papers in the present volume argue, in contrast, that precisely these changes are crucial for understanding why ever more goods and services can be sold and, thus, economic growth can continue. The papers explore the historical and empirical developments in consumption and offer first theoretical orientations on this important, though neglected, topic.

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Author:   Ulrich Witt
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2001
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783642075636

ISBN 10:   3642075630
Pages:   197
Publication Date:   07 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Consumption, demand, and economic growth - an introduction.- I. Economic growth and the evolution of preferences.- Cognition, imagination and institutions in demand creation.- Learning to consume - A theory of wants and the growth of demand.- Consumption, preferences, and the evolutionary agenda.- The demand for distinction and the evolution of the prestige car.- II. Qualitative change and the interactions between demand and supply.- Demand as a factor in the industrial revolution: A historical note.- Knowledge, consumption, and endogenous growth.- Variety, growth and demand.- The economic contribution of information technology: Towards comparative and user studies.- III. The satiation problem.- Satiation in an evolutionary model of structural economic dynamics.- Satiation in an international economy.- List of Contributors.

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