02921nam 2200649 a 450 991096587670332120251117115726.01-134-69381-81-280-42901-197866104290110-203-02291-210.4324/9780203022917 (CKB)1000000000000379(EBL)165351(OCoLC)437073684(SSID)ssj0000096892(PQKBManifestationID)11128048(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000096892(PQKBWorkID)10111841(PQKB)11125214(MiAaPQ)EBC165351(Au-PeEL)EBL165351(CaPaEBR)ebr5002857(CaONFJC)MIL42901(OCoLC)49701588(EXLCZ)99100000000000037919970929d1998 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe active consumer novelty and surprise in consumer choice /edited by Marina Bianchi1st ed.London ;New York Routledge19981 online resource (279 p.)Routledge frontiers of political economyDescription based upon print version of record.1-138-00714-5 0-415-17190-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preliminaries; CONTENTS; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Choice without utility?; 3 Economic change, choice and innovation in consumption; 4 Taste for novelty and novel tastes; 5 Cognition and innovation; 6 The organization of consumption; 7 Consumer goals as journeys into the unknown; 8 Work and the sirens of consumption in eighteenth-century London; 9 Silk purses out of sows' ears'; 10 Novelty, imitation and habit formation in a Scitovskian model of consumption; 11 Consumption in postmodernity; 12 On the consumption of signs; IndexThe Active Consumer discusses how consumers seem to delight in trying new solutions and exploring new combinatory possibilities. This book provides an economic-theoretical understanding of this phenomenon and the many ways in which innovation can structure consumer choice. The authors show from different points of view how central novelty can be in consumer behaviour, how it relates to technical change and how new consumer capabilities are developed and organized.Routledge frontiers of political economy.Consumption (Economics)Consumer behaviorConsumption (Economics)Consumer behavior.658.8/342Bianchi Marina49460MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910965876703321The active consumer4492979UNINA