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Baur, Nina

doi:10.1007/978-3-531-91974-4_14

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“…18-9, Kirchgässner, 2013; for a critical overview cf. Ackerman, 1997a, Hedtke, 1999 which repeatedly has been criticized by consumption sociologists as dogmatic (Baur, 2008;Hedtke, 1999;Nelson, 2007;Slater, 2005).…”

Section: The Disciplinary Gapmentioning

confidence: 99%

An offer you can't refuse: Enhancing personal productivity through ‘efficiency consumption’

Siemoneit¹

2019

Technology in Society

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte.Abstract: Worldwide, economic growth is a prominent political goal, despite its severe conflicts with ecological sustainability. Contributing to the debate on economic 'growth imperatives', this article explores the thesis that firms and consumers both frequently acquire goods that increase their efficiency (productivity). For firms, efficiency is accepted as a main investment motive, but for consumers it is usually framed as convenience, ease, or comfort. Via social diffusion processes consumption goods that can save time and costs are transformed from a welcome expansion of possibilities into a social imperative whose noncompliance over time also has economic drawbacks. Positive feedback mechanisms not only lead to an acceleration of private life but favor ever more efficient industry and trade structures on the supply side, contributing to a redistribution of incomes and revenues. Eventually a comprehensive consumption pattern leads to a new 'normality' and makes the renunciation of consumption goods like cars, computers or smartphones literally impossible. Both microeconomics and consumption sociology usually assume fundamental differences of motivations, goals and structural overall conditions for firms and consumers. Some reasons for this scholarly asymmetry are discussed and a more symmetrical consumption model is proposed. As a political dimension the increasing resource use of this quest for efficiency is addressed.Licence: Creative-Commons CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0.Herausgeber / Publisher: ZOE. Institut für zukunftsfähige Ökonomien e. V., Thomas-Mann-Straße 36, 53111 Bonn. info@zoe-institut.de · www.zoe-institut.de · ISSN 2627-9436. ZOE Diskussionspapiere präsentieren wirtschafts-und sozialwissenschaftliche Analysen von Potentialen und Hemmnissen für eine zukunftsfähige Wirtschaftsordnung. ZOE discussion papers present economic and socio-scientific analyses of potentials and barriers for a future-fit economic system.

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Section: The Disciplinary Gapmentioning

confidence: 99%