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Author : Angus Deaton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198288244
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (882 download)
Download or read book Understanding Consumption written by Angus Deaton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the saving and consumption patterns of households
Author : Rajagopal
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466675195
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)
Download or read book Understanding Consumer Behavior and Consumption Experience written by Rajagopal and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2015-01-31 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: "This book discusses the indispensable value of understanding consumer activities and the crucial role they play in developing successful marketing strategies by focusing on concepts such as consumer perceptions, consumption culture, and the influence of information technology"--Provided by publisher
Author : Angus Deaton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (488 download)
Download or read book Understanding Consumption written by Angus Deaton and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a comprehensive introduction to the study of consumption and saving using theoretical models based on the standard microeconomic foundations, this text also reviews the substantial empirical literature on the subject.
Author : Stephanie D. Preston
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262027674
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book The Interdisciplinary Science of Consumption written by Stephanie D. Preston and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-08 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars from psychology, neuroscience, economics, animal behavior, and evolution describe the latest research on the causes and consequences of overconsumption. Our drive to consume—our desire for food, clothing, smart phones, and megahomes—evolved from our ancestors' drive to survive. But the psychological and neural processes that originally evolved to guide mammals toward resources that are necessary but scarce may mislead us in modern conditions of material abundance. Such phenomena as obesity, financial bubbles, hoarding, and shopping sprees suggest a mismatch between our instinct to consume and our current environment. This volume brings together research from psychology, neuroscience, economics, marketing, animal behavior, and evolution to explore the causes and consequences of consumption. Contributors consider such topics as how animal food-storing informs human consumption; the downside of evolved “fast and frugal” rules for eating; how future discounting and the draw toward immediate rewards influence food consumption, addiction, and our ability to save; overconsumption as social display; and the policy implications of consumption science. Taken together, the chapters make the case for an emerging interdisciplinary science of consumption that reflects commonalities across species, domains, and fields of inquiry. By carefully comparing mechanisms that underlie seemingly disparate outcomes, we can achieve a unified understanding of consumption that could benefit both science and society.
Author : Chkoniya, Valentina
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799831175
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Anthropological Approaches to Understanding Consumption Patterns and Consumer Behavior written by Chkoniya, Valentina and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropology is a science specialized in the study of the past and present of societies, especially the study of humans and human behavior. The disciplines of anthropology and consumer research have long been separated; however, it is now believed that joining them will lead to a more profound knowledge and understanding of consumer behaviors and will lead to further understanding and predictions for the future. Anthropological Approaches to Understanding Consumption Patterns and Consumer Behavior is a cutting-edge research publication that examines an anthropological approach to the study of the consumer and as a key role to the development of societies. The book also provides a range of marketing possibilities that can be developed from this approach such as understanding the evolution of consumer behavior, delivering truly personalized customer experiences, and potentially creating new products, brands, and services. Featuring a wide range of topics such as artificial intelligence, food consumption, and neuromarketing, this book is ideal for marketers, advertisers, brand managers, consumer behavior analysts, managing directors, consumer psychologists, academicians, social anthropologists, entrepreneurs, researchers, and students.
Author : Ruby Roy Dholakia
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461421586
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)
Download or read book Technology and Consumption written by Ruby Roy Dholakia and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology and Household Consumption is a comprehensive text that provides insights into technology’s impact on consumer behavior and the household environment. Consumption and consumer behavior has become a very important subject of study that is now covered in many disciplines including family economics, culture studies, and feminist/women studies. In the first section, this book provides a historical perspective on how consumer behaviors have changed because of technology and how technology itself has changed. Data on ownership and expenditures is detailed in describing the penetration of technology in the household and changes over time. In the examination of demographics and social changes, an emphasis is placed on women and children. As it is important to understand the entry paths and factors that influence them, the book also introduces a research framework to understanding the adoption and utilization of household technologies. In the second section, the book examines specific household technologies and consumption experiences including shopping choices and behaviors, entertainment outlets and availability, communications technologies, and working at home. The book concludes with a section on the relationships between marketers and consumers.
Author : Angus Deaton
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191521639
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Understanding Consumption written by Angus Deaton and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1992-10-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the recent research on saving and consumption, a field in which substantial progress has been made over the last decade. Attempts by economists to understand saving and consumption patterns have generated some of the best science in economics. For more than fifty years, there has been serious empirical and theoretical activity, and data, theory, and policy have never been separated as has happened in many branches of economics. Research has drawn microeconomists interested in household behaviour, as well as macroeconomists, for whom the behaviour of aggregate consumption has always occupied a central role in explaining aggregate fluctuations. Econometricians have also made distinguished contributions, and there has been a steady flow of new methodologies by those working on saving and consumption, in time-series econometrics, as well as in the study of micro and panel data. A coherent account of these developments is presented here, emphasizing the interplay between micro and the macro, between studies of cross-section and panels, and those using aggregate time series data.
Author : Kenneth William Clements
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780864222046
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Understanding Consumption Patterns written by Kenneth William Clements and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan E. Schroeder
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415366250
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (662 download)
Download or read book Visual Consumption written by Jonathan E. Schroeder and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Visual Consumption' draws from art history, photography and visual studies to develop an interdisciplinary, image-based approach to understanding consumer behaviour.
Author : Patrick Diskin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Understanding Linkages Among Food Availability, Access, Consumption, and Nutrition in Africa written by Patrick Diskin and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kamila Pope
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0749478063
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (494 download)
Download or read book Understanding Planned Obsolescence written by Kamila Pope and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planned obsolescence is a strategy used to make products obsolete, leading to their premature replacement. The result is the over-exploitation of natural resources, increased waste and detrimental social impacts. It is a known practice in consumer electronics and affects other industries as they put profit before consequence. A ground-breaking new book, Understanding Planned Obsolescence looks at the causes, cost and impact of planned obsolescence. It considers the legal and economic frameworks to overcome the practice and how to mitigate its effects. It also unearths new patterns of production and consumption highlighting more sustainable development models. Including a wide range of case studies from Europe, USA and South America, Understanding Planned Obsolescence is a vital step forward for the future of business and academia alike. Online resources now available include chapter-by-chapter lecturer slides.
Author : Stephanie D. Preston
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026232539X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book The Interdisciplinary Science of Consumption written by Stephanie D. Preston and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-08-08 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars from psychology, neuroscience, economics, animal behavior, and evolution describe the latest research on the causes and consequences of overconsumption. Our drive to consume—our desire for food, clothing, smart phones, and megahomes—evolved from our ancestors' drive to survive. But the psychological and neural processes that originally evolved to guide mammals toward resources that are necessary but scarce may mislead us in modern conditions of material abundance. Such phenomena as obesity, financial bubbles, hoarding, and shopping sprees suggest a mismatch between our instinct to consume and our current environment. This volume brings together research from psychology, neuroscience, economics, marketing, animal behavior, and evolution to explore the causes and consequences of consumption. Contributors consider such topics as how animal food-storing informs human consumption; the downside of evolved “fast and frugal” rules for eating; how future discounting and the draw toward immediate rewards influence food consumption, addiction, and our ability to save; overconsumption as social display; and the policy implications of consumption science. Taken together, the chapters make the case for an emerging interdisciplinary science of consumption that reflects commonalities across species, domains, and fields of inquiry. By carefully comparing mechanisms that underlie seemingly disparate outcomes, we can achieve a unified understanding of consumption that could benefit both science and society.
Author : Gad Saad
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135608253
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption written by Gad Saad and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2007-02-05 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption by Gad Saad applies Darwinian principles in understanding our consumption patterns and the products of popular culture that most appeal to individuals. The first and only scholarly work to do so, this is a captivating study of the adaptive reasons behind our behaviors, cognitions, emotions, and perceptions. Thi
Author : Kevin Patterson
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 030737582X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Consumption written by Kevin Patterson and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-01-29 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consumption is a haunting story of a woman’s life marked by struggle and heartbreak, but it is also much more. It stunningly evokes life in the far north, both past and present, and offers a scathing dissection of the effects of consumer life on both north and south. It does so in an unadorned, elegiac style, moving between times, places and people in beautiful counterpoint. But it is also a gripping detective story, and features medical reportage of the highest order. In 1962 at the age of ten, Victoria is diagnosed with tuberculosis and must leave her home in the Arctic for a sanatorium in The Pas, Manitoba. Six years will pass before she returns to the north, years she spends learning English and Cree and becoming accustomed to life in the south. When she does move home, the sudden change in lifestyle leads sixteen-year-old Victoria to feel like a stranger in her own family. At the same time, Inuit culture is undergoing some equally bewildering changes: Cheetos are being eaten alongside walrus meat, and dog teams are slowly being replaced by snowmobiles. Victoria eventually settles back into the community and marries John Robertson, a Hudson’s Bay store manager, and they raise three children together. Although their marriage is initially close, Robertson will always be Kablunauk, a southerner, and this becomes a point of contention between them. When Robertson becomes involved in arrangements to open a diamond mine in Rankin Inlet, the family’s financial condition improves, but their emotional life becomes ever more fraught: their son, Pauloosie, draws ever closer to his hunter grandfather as their daughters, Marie and Justine, develop a taste for Guns N’ Roses. Several other richly imagined characters deepen Patterson’s unsentimental portrait of both north and south. They include Dr. Keith Balthazar, a flailing doctor from New York whose despairing affection for Victoria leads to tragedy, and Victoria’s brother, Tagak, who finds that the diamond mine allows him a success and maturity he could never attain within his traditional culture. The novel deftly tracks the meaning of “consumption” in both north and south. Consumption is tuberculosis, an illness previously unknown among the Inuit that wrenches Victoria from her home as a child, changing her family relationships, her outlook on the world and her entire future. As such consumption is a harbinger of the diseases of affluence, such as diabetes and heart disease that come to afflict the Inuit over the four-decade span of the novel. Consumption also defines the culture of post-industrial, urban North America, captured here through Keith Balthazar’s troubled relatives in New Jersey. And when the diamond mine opens in Rankin Inlet, its consumption of northern natural resources seems to symbolize Canada’s relationship with the Arctic and southern encroachments on the Inuit way of life. Consumption is a sweeping novel, of the kind one rarely encounters today: it is an essential book for Canadians to linger over, learn from, and remember.
Author : Belinda Wheaton
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415259545
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (595 download)
Download or read book Understanding Lifestyle Sports written by Belinda Wheaton and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past decade has seen a tremendous growth in the popularity of activities like skateboarding and snowboarding; sports that have been labelled as 'extreme' or 'lifestyle' and which embody 'alternative' sporting values such as anti-competitiveness, anti-regulation, high risk and personal freedom. The popularity of these activities goes beyond the teenage male youth that the media typify as their main consumers. This book examines the popularity, significance and meaning of lifestyle sport, exploring the sociological significance of these activities, particularly as related to their consumption, and the expression of politics of identity and difference. Including much unique ethnographic research work with skaters, surfers, windsurfers, climbers, adventure racers, and ultimate frisbee players., the central themes explored in The Cultural Politics of Lifestyle Sports include: How might we describe lifestyle sports? What influence do commercial forces have on lifestyle sports? Do lifestyle sports challenge the hegemonic masculinities inherent in a traditional sport environment? This book is a compelling exploration of sport as a way of life, and is a vital resource for any lecturer or student interested in Sociology and Cultural Studies in a Sports context.
Author : Isabelle Szmigin
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412933560
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Understanding the Consumer written by Isabelle Szmigin and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003-03-11 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the Consumer brings together marketing theory and practice in a truly consumer-centric approach. It challenges the lip service usually paid to this concept and demonstrates that a fundamental understanding of the consumer is critical to the future of effective marketing. Drawing on cutting-edge developments in the literature it reconceptualizes how consumers respond and act in the marketplace with particular attention to: - relationships with suppliers, products and brands - their innovative, creative and resistant behaviour - the complexity and unpredictability of their consumption behaviour - their increasing need to get closer to production. The book challenges existing functionally driven marketing thinking and shows how a more holistic approach to the marketplace will drive better theory and practice. It combines a jargon-free approach to the subject with an illustration of the relevant theory using practical, topical examples from the marketplace as well as drawing on other business related disciplines including sociology and economics to support its arguments.
Author : Mr.Tamim Bayoumi
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1451968434
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Explaining Consumption written by Mr.Tamim Bayoumi and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A method of testing the relative importance for consumption of risk sharing behavior and changes in current income is proposed and estimated using data across Canadian provinces. The focus of the estimation is less on whether or not the risk sharing model can be rejected than on how much each of these hypotheses can contribute to explaining overall variation in consumption. Both types of behavior are found to be statistically significant, but the risk sharing model is found to explain considerably more of the growth in consumption than does changes in income.
