1st Edition

Consuming Symbolic Goods Identity and Commitment, Values and Economics

Edited By Wilfred Dolfsma Copyright 2008
162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

The phenomenon of consumption has increasingly drawn attention from economists. While the ‘sole purpose of production is consumption’, as Adam Smith has claimed, economists have up to recently generally ignored the topic. This book brings together a range of different perspectives on the topic of consumption that will finally shed the necessary light on a largely neglected theme, such as... Read more

Consuming Symbolic Goods: Identity & Commitment - Introduction

Author: Wilfred Dolfsma (idem.); DOI: 10.1080/0034676042000253891

Lauding the Leisure Class: Symbolic Content and Conspicuous Consumption

Author: Alan Shipman (Cambridge University); DOI: 10.1080/0034676042000253909

Consumption, Identity, and the Sociocultural Constitution of "Preferences": Reading Women's Magazines

Author: Martha A. Starr (American University); DOI: 10.1080/0034676042000253918

You Are What You Eat: The Social Economy of the Slow Food Movement

Author: Bruce Pietrykowski ( University of Michigan-Dearborn); DOI: 10.1080/0034676042000253927

Consuming Values and Contested Cultures: A Critical Analysis of the UK Strategy for Sustainable Consumption and Production

Author: Gill Seyfang ( University of East Anglia); DOI: 10.1080/0034676042000253936

Religious Identity and Consumption

Authors: Metin M. Cogel; Lanse Minkler (University of Connecticut); DOI: 10.1080/0034676042000253945

Paradoxes of Modernist Consumption - Reading Fashions

Author: Wilfred Dolfsma (idem.); DOI: 10.1080/0034676042000253954

Are Unpreferred Preferences Weak in Symbolic Content?

Author: David George (Lasalle University, Philadelphia); DOI: 10.1080/0034676042000253963

The Gift Paradox: Complex Selves and Symbolic Good

Author: Elias L. Khalil (Monash University, Australia); DOI: 10.1080/0034676042000253972

Deriving the Engel Curve: Pierre Bourdieu and the Social Critique of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Author: Andrew B. Trigg (Open University, UK); DOI: 10.1080/0034676042000253987

The Post Affluent Society

Author: Amitai Etzioni (George Washington University); DOI: 10.1080/0034676042000253990

Biography

Wilfred Dolfsma is both an economist and philosopher and holds a PhD in the former.  He is attached to the Utrecht School of Economics as an Associate Professor, to Maastricht University (UNU-MERIT) as a professorial fellow, and is corresponding editor for the Review of Social Economy. He has won the Hellen Potter best article award and the Gunnar Myrdal best book award. His research interests are the interrelations between economy, society and technology. He has published on various aspects of media industries, feminist economics as well as on globalisation, and the developments in and effects of IPR. In addition, as an institutional economist, Dolfsma does research in the history and methodology of economics, and consumption.