Abstract
1. Introduction PART ONE: EXTENSIONS OF THE SIMPLE ECONOMISTS' MODEL OF CONSUMPTION 2. Sustainability and the Determinants of Personal Consumption 3. The Value to the Environmental Movement of the New Literature on the Economics of Happiness 4. Consumption, Stability, and Sustainability in Socio-Economic Systems 5. How Should Benefits and Costs Be Discounted in an Intergenerational Context PART TWO: CHALLENGING THE ASSUMPTION THAT INDIVIDUAL CONSUMERS ALWAYS ACT RATIONALLY 6. The Hungry Brain 7. Consuming at the Wrong Rate: Lessons from the Harvard Game 8. The Psychology of Sustainable Consumption 9. Behavioural Economics in Water Management: An Overview of Behavioural Economics Applications to Residential Water Demand 10. The Politics of Nudge: Dilemmas in Implementing Policies for Sustainable Consumption PART THREE: LOOKING BEYOND THE INDIVIDUAL CONSUMER: SOCIO-CULTURAL EXPLANATIONS OF CONSUMPTION 11. Past and Present: Historical Perspectives on Inequality and Collective Provision in Modern Consumption 12. Sociology, Consumption, and Habit 13. The Body in Consumption: Perspectives from India 14. Consumer Cultures: Past, Present, and Future
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