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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

Old Money, the Nouveau Riche and Brunhilde's Marriage Dilemma [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper proposes a screening approach to explain why dating is associated with purchasing status products and conspicuous gift giving. A potential bride searching for a husband may seek to screen candidates whose income is only partially observable ...
Bronsert, Anne-Kathrin   +2 more
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From decision patience to process patience: A decision–process integration of the choice to wait and the experience of waiting

open access: yesJournal of Consumer Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Consumer impatience has long been examined through the lens of intertemporal choice, where patience is inferred from decisions to accept delayed rewards. Yet, this conceptualization captures only the choice to wait, not the experience of waiting.
Selin A. Malkoc
wiley   +1 more source

Debt, Boom, Bust: A Theory of Minsky-Veblen Cycles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper reflects on the development leading to the recent crisis and interprets this development as a series of events within a Minsky-Veblen Cycle. To illustrate this claim we introduce conspicuous consumption concerns, as described by Veblen, into a
Kapeller, Jakob, Schütz, Bernhard
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Stratified consumer activism: How socioeconomic status shapes boycott participation

open access: yesJournal of Consumer Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Consumer activism is becoming increasingly common worldwide, but are all consumer groups as likely to engage in these practices? The current research investigates the presence of socioeconomic status (SES) differences in boycotting participation and explores the psychological processes underlying potential discrepancies.
Yan Vieites   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The history of the mainstream rejection of interdependent preferences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The notion of interdependent preferences has a long history in economic thought. It can be found in the works of authors such as Hume, Rae, Genovesi, Smith, Marx and Mill among others.
Drakopoulos, Stavros A.
core   +2 more sources

Development of Selective Plane Illumination Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering Spectral Microscopy for Improved Cellular Imaging

open access: yesJournal of Raman Spectroscopy, EarlyView.
Selective plane illumination (SPI) is combined with SERS spectral imaging to reduce background, improve image contrast, and enable improved spectroscopy from molecules on the surface of nanoparticles. This approach provides improved imaging and spectroscopy from nanoparticles in complex environments, such as biological cells.
Abigail E. Smith, Zachary D. Schultz
wiley   +1 more source

A Cognitive and Social Psychological Perspective on the Demand for Fashion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The fashion industry is an important global industry. In 2012, in Britain it generated more than £48 billion annually and employs more than 600,000 people. Whether or not we consider ourselves fashionable or interested in fashion, we all clothe ourselves
Mair, Carolyn
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Sustainable clothing: Why conspicuous consumption and greenwashing matter

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, 2022
Vanessa Apaolaza   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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