special issue: Learning to consume - A theory of wants and the growth of demand

By Ulrich Witt. 2001

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The Lead User method: an outline of empirical findings and issues for future research (2004, unknown): “Acquisition of new wants and learning how to satisfy them may be therefore interrelated (Witt, 2001; Buenstorf, forthcoming).”
Can Darwinism be “Generalized” and of what use would this be? (2011, background): “See, for instance, Penrose (1953) for the firm context, Klepper (1997) for the industry context, Witt (2001) for the context of consumption, Metcalfe et al. (2006) for that of economic growth, and Richerson and Boyd (2005) or North et al. (2009) for the context of institutions.”
The value of an educated population for an individual's entrepreneurship success (2014, unknown): “Indeed, cognitive learning of this kind is the basis of the advanced and most sophisticated consumption technologies of present day economies’ (Witt, 2001, p. 29).”
Retrospectives: Engel Curves (2010, background): “Wants are innate tendencies, such as hunger, thirst, and status seeking, that motivate consumption (Witt, 2001).”
An evolutionary theory of household consumption behavior (2010, background): “Veblen (1899), Duesenberry (1949), Aversi et al. (1998), and Witt (2001) have stressed the social and cultural nature of wants, as of course have many modern anthropologists and sociologists.”
The Effect of Consumption and Production Structure on Growth and Distribution: A Micro to Macro Model (2010, background): “A recent and flourishing literature explores this domain (Witt, 2001, 2008), to which this model could originally contribute.”
The role of social processes for sustainable consumption (2006, background): “Current consumption patterns have resulted from expanding material satisfiers creating new sets of wants, which have many times become more and more distant from the original needs being, represented [ 12 ].”
Symbolic Consumption and the Social Construction of Product Characteristics (2010, background): “Drawing on earlier work (Witt 2001), Section 2 briefly outlines different motivations underlying consumer behavior – among them those of symbolic consumption – and puts them in perspective with the role that technological product characteristics can play for explaining the evolution of consumption.”