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| Author: | Jackson, T. Marks, N. |
| Title: | Consumption, sustainable welfare and human needs - with reference to UK expenditure patterns between 1954 and 1994 |
| Journal: | Ecological Economics
1999 : MAR, VOL. 28:3, p. 421-442 |
| Index terms: | ECOLOGY ECONOMICS CONSUMPTION |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper explores the complex relationship between economic consumption and human welfare (or well-being). Conventional economics suggests that increasing levels of economic consumption lead to increasing levels of well-being. However, this view has been criticized on both environmental and social grounds. On the one hand, the material impacts of increasing consumption are environmentally unsustainable. On the other hand, material consumption can conflict with crucial social and psychological components of human welfare. |
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