Headstrong and unorthodox pioneers for a critical theory of consumption : contributions from economics and social sciences / Michael-Burkhard Piorkowsky, Karl Kollmann, editors.
Piorkowsky, Michael-Burkhard.; Kollmann, Karl, 1952-
2023
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Title Headstrong and unorthodox pioneers for a critical theory of consumption : contributions from economics and social sciences / Michael-Burkhard Piorkowsky, Karl Kollmann, editors.
Uniform Title Eigensinnige und unorthodoxe Vordenker für eine Kritische Konsumtheorie. English
ISBN 9783658420505 (electronic bk.)
3658420502 (electronic bk.)
3658420499
9783658420499
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-42050-5
Publication Details Wiesbaden : Springer, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-658-42050-5 doi
Call Number HB801
Dewey Decimal Classification 339.47
Summary This volume offers contributions on the fundamentals of current consumption theory and consumption research, which have developed almost entirely from originally unorthodox approaches against traditional micro- and macroeconomic theory. The inspiration came mainly from social economic behavioural research and ecological economics. But the reception is very patchy and the history is largely forgotten. With reference to the work of earlier authors, new arguments are offered to the current discussion about the dissolution of boundaries and paradoxes in consumption and the still narrowly understood consumer role. It is as much about rework in sharpening the understanding of consumption and consumers in their lifeworlds as it is about indications of fruitfulness for the analysis of open questions. It is about arguments for a paradigmatic reorientation of consumer research and policy. The contributions address in particular ambivalences, options and future modes in consumption in the search for individual satisfaction and ecological sustainability. The editors In 2013, Prof. Dr. Michael-Burkhard Piorkowsky initiated the project "Konsumtheorie neu denken" and the "Bamberger Manifest fr ein neues Verbraucherverstndnis". Prof. Dr. Karl Kollmann was able to win over the Austrian members of the "Bamberger Gruppe" and together with them established the "Schriftenreihe Kritische Verbraucherforschung". This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.
Bibliography, etc. Note References -- Part II: In Search of Environmental Sustainability -- Kenneth Ewart Boulding: Economics and Ecology -- 1 Biographical Sketch of Kenneth Ewart Boulding -- 2 Selected Contributions of K. E. Boulding to a Critical Theory of Consumption -- 2.1 Consumption and Production -- 2.2 Consumers and Firms -- 2.3 Non-market Economy and Market Economy -- 2.4 Basic Institution: Private Household -- 2.5 Spaceship Economy Versus Cowboy Economy -- 3 Implications for Consumption and Consumer Theory -- References -- Sustainable Development Is the Alternative to Capitalism: Memories of Gerhard Scherhorn
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Contents
Introduction: Consumer Theory Today Is Unthinkable Without Headstrong and Unorthodox Pioneers
1 Science Lives Precisely Also from Deviants
2 What Is Critical Consumer Theory?
3 Overview of the Contributions
References
Part I: In Search of Individual Satisfaction
Bell, Campbell and the Soul of Modern Consumerism
1 The Modernity of Modern Consumption
2 Daniel Bell: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)
2.1 Biography and Books
2.2 Origin and Structure
2.3 An Unholy Trinity
2.4 The Bourgeois Society as an Ideal Type

2.5 The Modern(istic) Culture
2.6 Hedonism and Consumption
3 Interim Review
4 Colin Campbell: The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism (1987)
5 Final Consideration
References
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Of Markets and People: Tibor Scitovskyś Joyless Economy
1 Preliminary Remark
2 Vita Activa Between Old Europe and the New World
2.1 The Out-Migrant
2.2 The One-Walker
3 The Joyless Economy
3.1 The Joyless Economy as a Research Program on Human Welfare
3.1.1 Scitovskyś Programme in Brief
3.1.2 The Psychology and Economics of Motivations

3.1.3 The American Lifestyle
3.1.4 The Message: Less Puritanism, More Enjoyment of Life!
3.2 First Reactions: So What?
3.3 The Second Edition
4 Bore or Long-Term Performer?
4.1 Twenty Years Later
4.2 And Today? Rarely Quoted, Little Noticed
4.3 Why Only, Why?
4.4 Scitovsky: An Outsider?
5 After Note
References
Albert O. Hirschman: Pioneer of an Action-Oriented Consumption Theory
1 A Life Between Exit and Voice
2 Crossing Borders
3 Reaction Modes
3.1 Exit
3.2 Voice
3.3 Combinations of Exit and Voice
3.4 Loyalty
4 Disappointment
5 Legacy

1 Gerhard Scherhorn: Lateral Thinker and Initiator
2 Recollection of Our Interaction in the Research Group Ethical-Ecological Rating
3 Joyous Serenity
4 Boundless Optimism
References
Georg Simmel: Fashion and Beauty
1 Introduction
Overview 1 Facts About Fast Fashion. Source: Frey 2020
2 Life and Work
2.1 Curriculum Vitae
2.2 Complete Works
2.3 Aesthetics
3 Philosophy of Fashion
3.1 Contents
3.2 Mathematics of Oscillations
3.3 Quantitative Models for Fashion
4 Fast Fashion, Aesthetics and Sustainability
5 Simmel, Siri of the Belle Époque?

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