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Consumption, Anti-Consumption and Consumption Communities

2014
Broadly, consumerism can be considered as a set of beliefs and values integrated into, but not exclusive to, the global market system, intended to make people believe that happiness is best achieved through possessions. In literature there are several other definitions of consumerism, consumption, anti-consumption and consumption communities. Therefore,
Sandra Maria Correia Loureiro   +2 more
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Consumption Insurance or Consumption Mobility? [PDF]

open access: possible, 1999
The theory of full consumption insurance posits that households are insulated from all idiosyncratic shocks so that the ratio of the marginal utilities of consumption of any two households is constant over time. Consumption insurance therefore implies absence of consumption mobility between any two time periods.
Jappelli, Tullio, Pistaferri, Luigi
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Anticipatory Consumptions

Management Science, 2020
Mental simulations such as anticipatory and/or retrospective emotions can yield higher weight for a delayed consequence than for current well-being (i.e., negative devaluing). In this research, we investigate the behavioral and welfare implications of negative devaluing for intertemporal consumptions in an intrapersonal game.
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