The fleeting joys of consumption

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Jul 3 12:58:33 PDT 2001


Michael McIntyre wrote:
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> Brad, have any of the economists you know engaged with Jon Elster's argument that consumption is an "opponent process" (something that over time gradually moves from an act motivated by utility to an act motivated by avoiding disutility) while self-realisation through activity in which utility is essentially a by-product have the opposite characteristic?
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Within which category does reading and responding to maillists fall? Are we consumers or self-realizers here?


:->

Carrol



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