Demand, Complexity, and Long-Run Economic Evolution

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Chai, Andreas (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Baum, Chad M. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Economic Complexity and Evolution,
• Subjects: Evolutionary economics.; Economic sociology.; Industrial management-Environmental aspects.; Economic growth.; Management.; Industrial management.; Microeconomics.; Institutional/Evolutionary Economics.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.; Sustainability Management.; Economic Growth.; Innovation/Technology Management.

The purpose of this contributed volume is to consider how global consumption patterns will develop in the next few decades, and what the consequences of that development will be for the economy, policymakers, and society at large. In the long run, the extent to which economic growth translates into...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Demand, Complexity, and Long-Run Economic Evolution
• Part I Re-thinking the Economic Possibilities of Our Grandchildren
• Work and Consumption in an Era of Unbalanced Technological Advance
• Institutions Hold Consumption on a Leash: An Evolutionary Economic Approach to the Future of Consumption
• The Mortgage Treadmill Versus Discretionary Spending and Enforced Leisure
• Ars Ultima Spes? Some Notes on the Unsustainability of Today's Capitalism and Culture as a Possible Remedy
• Part II New Perspectives on the Long-Run Evolution of Demand
• Tackling Keynes' Question: A Look Back on 15 years of Learning to Consume
• The Evolution of Consumption and Its Welfare Effects
• How Where I Shop Influences What I Buy: The Importance of the Retail Format in Sustainable Tomato Consumption
• Innovation, Structural Change and Multisectoral Economic Growth.