Gebundenes Buch

Consuming Symbolic Goods

Identity and Commitment, Values and Economics

Herausgeber: Dolfsma, Wilfred

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9780415456364
• ISBN-10: 0415456363
• Artikelnr.: 37180069