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Interrelationships among Facets of Self, Motivation, and Conspicuous and Sustainable Consumption Behaviour [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Business Science and Applied Management, 2015
The current study focuses on a process the current researchers label intra-negotiation-which deals with resolution of an individual's potential conflict across facets of oneself-and its influence on two distinctly different kinds of consumption (one ...
Nguyen, T.   +3 more
doaj  

Signalling, Social Status and Labor Income Taxes [PDF]

open access: yes
We investigate the effects of introducing a linear labor income tax under the assumptions that individuals have concerns for social status, that they can signal their relative standing by spending on a conspicuous good, and that the tax revenue is ...
Ennio Bilancini, Leonardo Boncinelli
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Dental development in the tropical gar (Atractosteus tropicus) and the evolution of vertebrate dentitions

open access: yesDevelopmental Dynamics, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Dentitions have diversified enormously during vertebrate evolution, involving reductions, modifications, or allocations to prey seizing and processing regions. A combination of ancient and novel features related to dental and oropharyngeal apparatuses is found in extant lineages of non‐teleost fishes, such as the gars.
Anna Pospisilova   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Religious 'speculation': the rise of Ifa cults and consumption in post-Soviet Cuba [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
With an ethnographic focus on the prestigious cult of Ifá, this article seeks to account for the recent effervescence of Afro-Cuban cult worship in urban Cuba.
Holbraad, M
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Noncopper Photocatalysts for Visible‐Light‐Driven Conversion of CO2 into C2+ Products

open access: yesENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, EarlyView.
Noncopper photocatalysts for visible‐light‐driven CO2 conversion to C2+ products with high production rates and selectivity have been reviewed and commented on, especially for the strategies to enhance photocatalytic efficiency. Photocatalytic CO2 fixation into value‐added chemicals can not only mitigate the greenhouse effect but also alleviate the ...
Fangshuai Chen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conspicuous Ethical Consumption

open access: yesTheoretical Economics Letters, 2019
This paper considers a group of consumers who have preferences over how a good is produced and distributed, rather its traits alone. Moreover, it is hypothesized that ethical preferences also depend on prices, and that prices inform consumers about the way goods are produced and distributed.
openaire   +3 more sources

Conspicious Consumption, Economic Growth, and Taxation: A Generalization [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper studies the infuence of consumption externalities in the Ramsey model. In contrast to the recent literature, a quite general specification of preferences is used and the concept of the effective intertemporal elasticity of substitution is ...
Fisher, Walter H., Hof, Franz X.
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Two‐Dimensional Piezoelectric Nanomaterials for Nanoelectronics and Energy Harvesting

open access: yesENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, EarlyView.
Two‐Dimensional Piezoelectric Nanomaterials from properties to applications. Smart materials, especially piezoelectric materials, have gained popularity over the last two decades. Two‐dimensional (2D) piezoelectric materials exhibit attributes including great flexibility, ease of workability, extensive surface area, and many active sites, indicating ...
Yujun Cao   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conspicuous Leisure: Optimal Income Taxation when both Relative Consumption and Relative Leisure Matter [PDF]

open access: yes
Previous studies on public policy under relative consumption concerns have ignored the role of leisure comparisons. This paper considers a two-type optimal nonlinear income tax model where people care both about their relative consumption and their ...
Aronsson, Thomas   +1 more
core   +1 more source

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