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Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 1600-1800
by Woodruff SmithTying together of several distinct cultural patterns during this century to create a culture of respectability and its impact on popular culture, trade, politics, social dynamics, and literature, this original and thoughtful work provides a comprehensive and much-needed understanding of the origins of modern consumption and all of its cultural impl
Consumption and Vietnam’s New Middle Classes: Societal Transformations and Everyday Life (Consumption and Public Life)
by Arve HansenThis book studies the dramatic changes in consumption patterns in Vietnam over the past decades, combining a focus on everyday practices and societal transformations. Zooming in on the new urban middle classes, and through in-depth case studies in the realms of mobility, food and energy, the book brings new insights to some of the most urgent global sustainability challenges. Based on a decade of research in Vietnam, the book aims to contribute to better understanding one of the most fascinating ‘development success stories’ in the world. It introduces the term ‘consumer socialism’ to analyse some of the contradictions embedded in the socialist market economy. Simultaneously, the book aims to contribute to strengthening consumption research in and on emerging economies, and for this purpose develops a theoretical approach focusing on social practices and the political economy of consumption.
Consumption And Violence: Radical Protest In Cold-war West Germany
by Alexander SedlmaierCombining the tools of political, social, cultural, and intellectual history, Consumption and Violence: Radical Protest in Cold-War West Germany explores strategies of legitimization developed by advocates of militant resistance to certain manifestations of consumer capitalism. The book contributes to a more sober evaluation of West German protest movements, not just terrorism, as it refrains from emotional and moral judgments, but takes the protesters' approaches seriously, which, regarding consumer society, had a rational core. Political violence is not presented as the result of individual shortcomings, but emerges in relation to major societal changes, i. e. , the unprecedented growth of consumption. This new perspective sheds important light on violence and radical protest in post-war Germany, as previous books have failed to examine to what extent these forms of resistance should be regarded as reactions to changing regimes of provision. Continuing the recently growing interest in the interdependence of countercultures and consumer society, the focus on violence gives the argument a unique twist, making the book thought-provoking and engaging.
Consumption and Well-Being in the Material World
by Miriam TatzelThis volume addresses how we can find happiness and well-being in the material world. It builds on previous works that find that materialism is associated with lowered well-being (materialists are less happy) and that consumerism, in all its profusion, is harmful to environmental well-being. How can we use the money and possessions in our lives in the service of well-being? Apparently not by being materialistic. Can we benefit from the many wonders of the marketplace -- in technology, convenience and aesthetics -- without falling prey to the lures and dangers of excessive material preoccupation? Can we meet our material needs in ways that nourish growth and well-being? The authors of the chapters in this volume are on-going researchers into such questions. Herein you can learn about the hedonic benefits of thrift and of spending on experiences; how possessions can be beneficial; how different types of consumers spend money; cultural variations in conceptions of the "good life;" how we might reconcile environmental and consumer well-being; and how to measure the whole of human, economic, and environmental well-being. Taken all together, this collection finds grounds for compatibility between what's good for the consumer and what's good for the environment. This volume appeals to academics, professionals, students and others interested in materialism and consumer well-being.
Consumption as an Investment (Routledge Studies In The History Of Economics #Vol. 71)
by Cosimo PerrottaPerrotta explores and charts the changing place of consumption as a source of investment in production and growth within economic writings from ancient history to the present. This ambitious project is carried out with great skill, vigour and originality and will help to bring consumption studies into the mainstream of economic thought.
Consumption-Based Approaches in International Climate Policy (Springer Climate)
by Christian LiningerThis book analyses the potentials and consequences of a change from production-based to consumption-based approaches in international climate policy. With the help of an analytical model, the author investigates the effects of different policy variants on environmental effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, carbon leakage, competitiveness and the global distribution of income. The economic, legal and political background and the often contradictory findings on consumption-based approaches are reviewed in great detail. In the final chapters, options for practical policy design are developed. The book concludes that a switch to consumption orientation is not a policy tool whereby industrialized countries can unilaterally improve climate policy effectiveness, but should rather be seen as a possible intermediate step on the way to a fully multilateral mitigation strategy.
Consumption-Based Forecasting and Planning: Predicting Changing Demand Patterns in the New Digital Economy (Wiley and SAS Business Series)
by Charles W. ChaseDiscover a new, demand-centric framework for forecasting and demand planning In Consumption-Based Forecasting and Planning, thought leader and forecasting expert Charles W. Chase delivers a practical and novel approach to retail and consumer goods companies demand planning process. The author demonstrates why a demand-centric approach relying on point-of-sale and syndicated scanner data is necessary for success in the new digital economy. The book showcases short- and mid-term demand sensing and focuses on disruptions to the marketplace caused by the digital economy and COVID-19. You’ll also learn: How to improve demand forecasting and planning accuracy, reduce inventory costs, and minimize waste and stock-outs What is driving shifting consumer demand patterns, including factors like price, promotions, in-store merchandising, and unplanned and unexpected events How to apply analytics and machine learning to your forecasting challenges using proven approaches and tactics described throughout the book via several case studies. Perfect for executives, directors, and managers at retailers, consumer products companies, and other manufacturers, Consumption-Based Forecasting and Planning will also earn a place in the libraries of sales, marketing, supply chain, and finance professionals seeking to sharpen their understanding of how to predict future consumer demand.
Consumption Behaviour and Social Responsibility: A Consumer Research Approach (Approaches to Global Sustainability, Markets, and Governance)
by Narendra Singh Karnika GuptaThis book investigates the concept of consumer social responsibility (CnSR) by considering the combination of ‘consumption behaviour’ and ‘social responsibility’. It puts forward a theory of responsible consumption behaviour, then models and empirically tests this theory using quantitative research methods. In so doing, the book offers a new consumer behaviour model: the C-A-C-B (Concern-Attitude-Commitment-Behaviour) model. The book appeals to readers interested in consumer behaviour, research methodologies, social responsibility, corporate social responsibility, segmentation and profiling, sustainability, and structural equation modelling with path analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. The book also offers concrete recommendations that will benefit businesses and governments alike.
Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits (Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability)
by Doris Fuchs Marlyne Sahakian Tobias Gumbert Antonietta Di Giulio Michael Maniates Sylvia Lorek Antonia GrafConsumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits explores how to enhance peoples’ chances to live a good life in a world of ecological and social limits. Rejecting familiar recitations of problems of ecological decline and planetary boundaries, this compact book instead offers a spirited explication of what everyone desires: a good life. Fundamental concepts of the good life are explained and explored, as are forces that threaten the good life for all. The remedy, says the book’s seven international authors, lies with the concept of consumption corridors, enabled by mechanisms of citizen engagement and deliberative democracy. Across five concise chapters, readers are invited into conversation about how wellbeing can be enriched by social change that joins "needs satisfaction" with consumerist restraint, social justice, and environmental sustainability. In this endeavour, lower limits of consumption that ensure minimal needs satisfaction for all are important, and enjoy ample precedent. But upper limits to consumption, argue the authors, are equally essential, and attainable, especially in those domains where limits enhance rather than undermine essential freedoms. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in the social sciences and humanities, and environmental and sustainability studies, as well as to community activists and the general public.
Consumption in the Age of Affluence: The World of Food
by Judith Wright Ben Fine Michael HeasmanWith growing affluence in the developed world, food has become an increasing focus for attention. Here, the authors argue that in order to understand the extensive and dramatic developments in the world of food, a new interdisciplinary approach is necessary. The Age of Affluence successfully addresses food consumption in this way. The volume: * argues the importance of socioeconomic and cultural factors over diet, in influencing the production, marketing and consumption of different groups of foods; * places food systems theory on sound analytical foundations; * draws critically upon food systems literature; * includes case studies from the sugar, dairy and meat systems; * employs novel statistical techniques to identify and explain distinct patterns of food consumption; The book will help to revitalize the discipline of food studies and points the way forward for the continuing study of food consumption. As such, it will be invaluable to students, researchers and policymakers engaged in the world of food.
Consumption, Informal Markets, and the Underground Economy: Hispanic Consumption in South Texas (Palgrave Pivot)
by Michael J. PisaniUsing original qualitative ethnographic field interviews and quantitative field survey results, Consumption, Informal Markets, and the Underground Economy explores the rationale for and model of 'off the books' consumption in a borderlands environment.
Consumption Intensified: The Politics of Middle-Class Daily Life in Brazil
by Maureen O'DoughertyConsumption Intensified examines how self-identified middle class Brazilians in São Paulo redefined their class during Brazil's economic crisis of 1981-1994. With inflation soaring to an astounding 2700 percent, their consumption practices intensified, not only in relation to the national crisis but also to the expanding global consumer culture. Drawing on her observations of everyday practices and on representations of the middle class in popular culture, anthropologist Maureen O'Dougherty explores both the logic and incoherence of middle- to upper-middle-class Brazilian life. With the supports of middle-class living threatened--job security, quality education, home ownership, savings, ease of consumption--the means and meaning of "middle class" were thrown into question. The sector thus redefined itself through both class- and race-based claims of moral and cultural superiority and through privileged consumption, a definition the media underscored by continually addressing middle-class Brazilians as consumers--or rather, as consumers denied. In these times, adults became more flexible in employment, and put stakes in their children's expensive private education. They engaged in elaborate comparison shopping, stockpiling of goods, and financial strategizing. Ongoing desire for distinction and "first- world" modernity prompted these Brazilians to buy foreign goods through contraband, thereby defying state protectionist policy. Discontented with the constraints of the national economy, they welcomed neoliberalism. By uncovering connections between culture and politics, O'Dougherty complicates understandings of the middle class as a social group and category. Illuminating the intricate relation between identity and local and global consumption, her work will be welcomed by students and scholars in anthropology and Latin American studies, and those interested in consumption, popular culture, politics, and globalization.
Consumption, Media and the Global South: Aspiration Contested
by Mehita IqaniWhat does consumption in the global south signify, and how are its complexities communicated in media discourses? This book looks at the media representation of consumer culture in Africa, China, Brazil and India through case studies ranging from celebrity selfies, to travel websites, news reports and documentary film.
The Consumption of Inequality: Weapons of Mass Distraction
by Karen Bettez HalnonThe fads, fashions, and media in popular consumer culture frequently make recreational and ideological "fun" of poverty and lower class living. In this book, Halnon delineates how incarceration, segregation, stigmatization, cultural and social consecration, and carnivalization work in the production and consumption of inequality.
Consumption, Production, and Entrepreneurship in the Time of Coronavirus: A Business Perspective of the Pandemic
by Elena Gallitto Marta Massi Paul HarrisonThis book examines the impact of the continuing COVID-19 crisis on consumers and businesses. With stay-at-home orders and social distancing measures mandated by governments worldwide, businesses have made significant adjustments to adapt to the sudden changes caused by the pandemic. The book aims to understand what settling and thriving in the “new normal” have meant for businesses around the world. This book is divided into sections on production, consumption, and entrepreneurship and explores how consumer psychology has changed while also evaluating new digital business opportunities afforded by the pandemic. By bringing together psychology and marketing scholars, this interdisciplinary book will inform research on how businesses adapt to crises.
Consumption, Psychology and Practice Theories: A Hermeneutic Perspective (Routledge Interpretive Marketing Research)
by Tony WilsonPractice theories of our equipped and situated tacit construction of participatory narrative meaning are evident in multiple disciplines from architectural to communication study, consumer, marketing and media research, organisational, psychological and social insight. Their hermeneutic focus is on customarily little reflected upon, recurrent but required, practices of embodied, habituated knowing how—from choosing ‘flaw-free’ fruit in a market to celebrating Chinese New Year Reunion Dining, caring for patients to social media ‘voice’. In ready-to-hand practices, we attend to the purpose and not to the process, to the goal rather than its generating. Yet familiar practices both presume and put in place fundamental understanding. Listening to Asian and Western consumers reflecting—not only subsequent to but also within practices—this book considers activity emplacing core perceptions from a liminal moment in a massive mall to health psychology research. Institutions configure practices-in-practices cohering or conflicting within their material horizons and space accessible to social analysis. Practices theory construes routine as minimally self-monitored, nonetheless considering it as being embodied narrative. In research output, such generic ‘storied’ activity is seen as (in)formed, shaped from a shifting hierarchy of ‘horizons’ or perspectives—from habituated to reflective—rather than a single seamless unfolding. Taking a communication practices route disentangles and avoids conflating tacit and transformative construction of identities in qualitative research. Practices research crosses discipline. Ubiquitous media use by managers and visitors throughout a shopping mall responds to investigating not only with digital tracking expertise but also from an interpretive marketing viewpoint. Visiting a practice perspective’s hermeneutic underwriting, spatio-temporal metaphorical concepts become available and appropriate to the analysis of communication as a process across disciplines. In repeated practices, ‘horizons of understanding’ are solidified. Emphasising our understanding of a material environment as ‘equipment’, practices theory enables correlation of use and demographic variable in quantitative study extending interpretive behavioural and haptic qualitative research. Consumption, Psychology and Practice Theories: A Hermeneutic Perspective addresses academics and researchers in communication studies, marketing, psychology and social theory, as well as university methodology courses, recognising philosophy guides a discipline’s investigative insight.
Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life (Consumption and Public Life)
by Arve Hansen Kenneth Bo NielsenThis open access book seeks to understand why we consume as we do, how consumption changes, and why we keep consuming more and more, despite the visible damage we are doing to the planet. The chapters cover both the stubbornness of unsustainable consumption patterns in affluent societies and the drivers of rapidly increasing consumption in emerging economies. They focus on consumption patterns with the largest environmental footprints, including energy, housing, and mobility and engage in sophisticated ways with the theoretical frontiers of the field of consumption research, in particular on the ‘practice turn’ that has come to dominate the field in recent decades. This book maps out what we know about consumption, questions what we take for granted, and points us in new directions for better understanding—and changing—unsustainable consumption patterns.
Consumption Takes Time: Implications for Economic Theory (The\graz Schumpeter Lectures #Vol. 4)
by Ian SteedmanStandard economic theory of consumer behaviour considers consumers' preferences, their incomes and commodity prices to be the determinants of consumption. However, consumption takes time and no consumer has more - or less - than 168 hours per week. This simple fact is almost invisible in standard theory, and takes the centre stage in this book. Whe
Consumptionomics: Asia's Role in Reshaping Capitalism and Saving the Planet
by Chandran Nair"The current crisis is over money tends to obscure bigger crises over the whole direction of out society. Chandran Nair well brings out the need for us to think again: about our consumption of diminishing resources, the way we measure economic wealth and social health, the changing balance of power between East and West, and the damage we are doing to the natural environment - in short, the future of human society in a vulnerable world. Most important he points to a better way ahead. " - Sir Crispin Tickell "Two virtually certain major trends will create a massive global collision. First, Asian living standards will rise spectacularly. This is good. Second, Asians will replicate Western consuming patterns. This is bad. How do we gain the good and avoid the bad? This will be one of the biggest questions of the twenty-first century. Chandran Nair's book could not be timelier. We need to seriously address the major questions that he raises and heed his valuable advice. " - Kishore Mahbubani, former Singapore Ambassador to UN and author of "Can Asians Think? And The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East" "Reconciling the needs of billions of new consumers with the requirements of a planet that is already showing the strains of ecological carelessness, overexploitation and unsustainable pollution, is one of the urgent challenges facing humanity. "Consumptionomics" shows what it will take to rise to this challenge and what the consequences of failing to do so would be, while also offering ideas about what to do. A fascinating read about an indispensable debate. " - Moises Naim, former editor of "Foreign Policy" magazine and author of "Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy" "Terrifying, but terrific "Consumptionomics" is an outstanding analysis of what the rise of Asia means for our world. Chandran makes an incredibly compelling argument about why business (i. e. consumption) as usual just won't do. Rather than acting as an impediment to growth for the region, addressing this issue head-on becomes an opportunity to innovate and shift towards a low-carbon economy, growing even more, faster and better. " - Jose-Maria Figueres, former president of Costa Rica, and former MD of the World Economic Forum
Contabilidad Fácil Para Ebay
by Carlos Blanco Nick Vulich¿Serio acerca de su negocio en el Internet? Contabilidad Fácil para eBay es un iniciador financiero para los vendedores en el Internet. Lo ayudará a domar la bestia, para que Ud. pueda dejar de hacer malabares con sus recibos, los formularios de impuestos y el miedo a una auditoría del Servicio de Rentas Internas. El libro es como una Maestría en Administración de Empresas presentada en cortos y simples bytes. > He aquí una muestra de lo que Ud. aprenderá. > Eliminaremos el misterio de la contabilidad > Le daremos los términos básicos de negocio que Ud. necesita saber > Le ayudaremos a domar el monstruo que es GoDaddy Bookkeeping > Le ayudaremos a maniobrar en el laberinto de los impuestos, las licencias de negocio y las deducciones de negocio más comunes. Si UD. se ha preguntado alguna vez si puede tomar la deducción por usar su casa para negocios , reclamar los gastos por kilometraje por usar su carro para negocios; consideró deducir una nueva computadora, iPad o iPhone; o pensó acerca de deducir sus próximas vacaciones como un viaje de negocios. ¡No se preocupe! Se lo explicaremos todo. Y si vende en múltiples plataformas, también lo ayudaremos. Contabilidad Fácil para eBay aplica a vendedores de Amazon y de Etsy también. Recoja su copia hoy y aprenda como hacer crecer su negocio - ¡Un número detrás otro!:
Contabilidad para numerofóbicos: Una guía de supervivencia para propietarios de pequeñas empresas
by Dawn Fotopulos¿Por qué tantos empresarios temen analizar las finanzas? Ponen excusas... no tienen tiempo... eso es responsabilidad del contador... pero la verdad es que nadie está tan interesado en su empresa como ellos mismos, y necesitan tomar el control.Como propietario de una pequeña empresa, los estados financieros son sus herramientas más importantes y si no saben leer y comprender sus implicaciones, no puede dirigir su negocio exitosamente. Este libro desmitifica las operaciones financieras de su compañía: la declaración neta de ingresos, la declaración de flujo de efectivo y balances. Explica en lenguaje sencillo cómo cada medida refleja el estado general de su compañía e impacta sus decisiones. Usted descubrirá:Cómo su declaración neta de ingresos es la clave para incrementar sus ganancias.Cómo identificar el punto de equilibrio en el cual su empresa es autosostenible.Consejos reales sobre cómo medir y aumentar el flujo de efectivo.Qué revelan las hojas de balance sobre el valor de su empresa.Y másIlustrado con estudio de casos y lleno de pasos prácticos para la acción, esta guía esencial pondrá su negocio en el camino de la rentabilidad de inmediato.
Contagion
by John R. TalbottBestselling author John Talbott outlines the troublesome economic times ahead and what can be done about themTough times are here, and author John Talbott-who accurately predicted the dot.com technology stock collapse as well as the recent housing, mortgage, and financial crises-argues that the coming global recession will be unlike anything we've ever seen.In Contagion, Talbott turns his attention to this crisis and offers insights on what can be done to navigate such treacherous terrain. Talbott sets the stage by discussing how government borrowing and spending on the war, healthcare, Social Security, and corporate giveaways combined with dramatic increases in personal spending, fueled by credit card and mortgage debt, have funded unsustainable levels of personal and government consumption.Offers practical suggestions as to how investors and homeowners can best weather this storm with straightforward advice on where to investExamines real estate and housing issues to help you make the best decisions possible in this arenaDetails the best ways to utilize stocks, bonds, TIPS, and commodities, and to prosper during this global crisisIf you really want to protect yourself from the unfolding economic crisis, then Contagion is the book you need to read.
Contagion and the Responsibility of Networks: From Pandemics to Financial Crises and Fake News
by Pietro Battiston‘Contagion’ is a crucial term in the theory of networks, that is nowadays employed to study increasingly diverse issues such as financial crises, epidemics, and fake news. It provides a unifying framework to describe various social and economic phenomena that occur within different networks — involving various forms of contagion.This book discusses contagion over social and economic networks, and its consequences for modern societies. It starts with an accessible but solid introduction to basic concepts of the theory of networks, with intuitive explanations and examples both of networks that shape our daily lives, and of how researchers analyze them. It then focuses specifically on contagion, and on its importance for societies. Three crucial examples are analyzed more in depth: epidemiological contagion, fake news and financial crises. The conclusions show how various societal problems — each consequence of some form of contagion — call for similar policy measures: a pre-emptive and comprehensive effort in collecting the required information, and a shift in the concept of individual responsibility itself.This is a book for any reader who is interested in how contagion and networks shape modern society.
Contagion of Bank Failures: The Relation to Deposit Insurance and Information (Routledge Library Editions: Banking & Finance)
by Sangkyun ParkThis volume examines the vulnerability of sound banks during financial crises helps understand the nature of financial crises and other banking issues traces the history of banking reform in the United States from 1933 until 1992 discusses deregulation in the US banking system
Contagion! Systemic Risk in Financial Networks
by T. R. HurdThis volume presents a unified mathematical framework for the transmission channels for damaging shocks that can lead to instability in financial systems. As the title suggests, financial contagion is analogous to the spread of disease, and damaging financial crises may be better understood by bringing to bear ideas from studying other complex systems in our world. After considering how people have viewed financial crises and systemic risk in the past, it delves into the mechanics of the interactions between banking counterparties. It finds a common mathematical structure for types of crises that proceed through cascade mappings that approach a cascade equilibrium. Later chapters follow this theme, starting from the underlying random skeleton graph, developing into the theory of bootstrap percolation, ultimately leading to techniques that can determine the large scale nature of contagious financial cascades.