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" The active consumer : "
edited by Marina Bianchi.
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BL
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995036
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b749406
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The active consumer : : novelty and surprise in consumer choice /\ edited by Marina Bianchi.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 1998.
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Routledge frontiers of political economy
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1 online resource (xiii, 264 pages) :: illustrations
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0203022912
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: 0415171903
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: 6610429014
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: 9780203022917
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: 9780415171908
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: 9786610429011
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0415171903
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Part I. The Hedonics of Taste : Utility, Novelty and Change -- Choice without utility? Some reflections on the loose foundations of standard consumer theory / Fabio Ranchetti -- Economic change, choice and innovation in consumtion / Davide Gualerzi -- Taste for novelty and novel tastes : The role of human agency in consumption / Marina Bianchi -- Part II. Consumers as Producers and Problem Solvers : Consumption Capabilities -- Cognition and innovation / Brian J. Loasby -- The organization of consumption / Richard N. Langlois and Metin M. Cosgel -- Consumer goals as journeys into the unknown / Peter E. Earl -- Part III. Adoption and Diffusion of New Goods : Illustrative Analyses -- Work and the sirens of consumption in eighteenth-century London / Hans-Joachim Voth -- Silk purses out of sows' ears : Mass rarefaction of consumption and the emerging consumer-collector / Guido Guerzoni and Gabriele Troilo -- Novelty, imitation and habit formation in a Scitovskian model of consumption / S. Abu Turab Rizvi and Rajiv Sethi -- Part IV. Consumption and Communication -- Consumption in postmodernity : Social structuration and the construction of the self / Liisa Uusitalo -- On the consumption of sign / Michael Hutter.
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Consumer behavior.
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Consumption (Economics)
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Consumer Behavior.
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Consumer behavior.
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Consumption (Economics)
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Consumentengedrag.
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| Dewey Classification
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658.8/342
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HB801.A275 1998eb
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Bianchi, Marina.
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