Escaping Satiation The Demand Side of Economic Growth
The collection of papers presented in this special issue arose out of two events. The first was the symposium "Escaping Satiation - Increasing Product Variety, Preference Change and the Demand Side of Economic Growth" which was held at the Max Planck Institute in Jena, Germany, in December...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2001, 2001
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2001 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
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