Escaping satiation : the demand side of economic growth /
"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. T...
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Berlin ; New York :
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[2001]
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Table of Contents:
- Consumption, demand, and economic growth
- an introduction / Ulrich Witt
- I. Economic growth and the evolution of preferences. Cognition, imagination and institutions in demand creation / Brian J. Loasby. Learning to consume
- A theory of wants and the growth of demand / Ulrich Witt. Consumption, preferences, and the evolutionary agenda / J.S. Metcalfe. The demand for distinction and the evolution of the prestige car / G.M. Peter Swann
- II. Qualitative change and the interactions between demand and supply. Demand as a factor in the industrial revolution: A historical note / Joel Mokyr. Knowledge, consumption, and endogenous growth / Richard N. Langlois. Variety, growth and demand / Pier Paolo Saviotti.