Book Review: The Economics of Abundance: Affluent Consumption and the Global Economy

Brooks R. (2011) Sex, Genes and Rock ‘n’ Roll: How Evolution Has Shaped the Modern World, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney.

Duesenberry J. S. (1949) Income, Saving and the Theory of Consumer Behavior, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.

Frank R. H. (2005) ‘The mysterious disappearance of James Duesenberry’, New York Times, 9 June, available: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/09/business/09scene.html?_r=1 [accessed 12 July 2011].

Hanson J. D. Kysar D. A. (1999) ‘Taking behavioralism seriously: Some evidence of market manipulation’, Harvard Law Review, 112(7), pp. 1420–1572.

Katona G. A. (1960) The Powerful Consumer: Psychological Studies of the American Economy, McGraw-Hill, New York.

Kelly G. A. (1955) The Psychology of Personal Constructs, Norton, New York.

Linder S. B. (1970) The Harried Leisure Class, Columbia University Press, New York.

Lutz M. A. Lux K. J. (1979) The Challenge of Humanistic Economics, Benjamin/Cummings Publishing, Menlo Park, CA.

McCracken G. (1990) Culture and Consumption: New Approaches to the Symbolic Character of Consumer Goods and Activities, Indiana University Press, Indianapolis, IN.

Scitovsky T. (1987) ‘Growth in the affluent society’, Lloyds Bank Review, No. 163, January, pp. 1–14.

Stigler G. J. Becker G. S. (1977) ‘De gustibus non est disputandum’, American Economic Review, 67(2), pp. 76–90.