The Political Economy of Consumer Behavior: Contesting Consumption (Routledge Advances in Social Economics)

by Bruce Pietrykowski (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2009

  $176.39

  Geographers, historians of technology and sociologists have devoted attention to trying to figure out what makes consumption meaningful. By contrast, economists have been content to hold onto theories of consumption that depend on a self-interested representative agent making utility maximizing decisions. This book develops this account.