Abstract Hmd
Context is known to affect evaluation for many goods. For example, a house of any given size is more likely to be viewed as adequate the larger it is relative to other houses in the same locale. If evaluations of some goods are more sensitive to context than others, there is no presumption that privately optimal consumption patterns will be socially optimal. Rather, consumers will spend too much on goods whose evaluations depend most strongly on context and too little on those whose evaluations...
Satiation
If your income were sufficiently large relative to all the relevant prices , you could spend the next period of time as you wished unconstrained by income, that is - but not of course by ethical commitments, social obligations, etc. . You could, that is, adopt your 'satiation' time-use pattern, which would entail in turn the use of some particular set of commodities. In the absence of the budget constraint there would always be a 'satiation commodity bundle.' The only exceptions would relate to...
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A Shacklean Approach To The Demand For Movies
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Acknowledgments
I would like to thank Bernard Hrusa Marlow for his painstaking assistance in clarifying my ideas and Marina Bianchi, Gherardo Girardi and Guglielmo Volpe for their thoughtful reviews of this work, as well as the participants of the 'Evolution of Consumption Workshop' organized by the University of Cassino and held in Gaeta, Italy in March 2005 and the '7th Annual Business and Economics and Scholars Workshop Summit in Motion Picture Industry Studies', held at the Carl De Santis Business and...