consumption

Energy management has been an important function of organisations since the oil crisis of the mid 1970’s led to hugely increased costs of energy. Although the financial costs of energy are still important, the growing recognition of the environmental costs of fossil-fuel energy …

This thesis examines continuity and change in the three Black Country localities of Pensnett, Tipton and Sedgley between 1945 and c1970. The dominant historiography of the period suggests that the prosperity of post-war British society, the safety-net of state welfare provision …

This interpretive consumer research study interrogates the idea that people turn to consumption as a means of self-determination. Proceeding from the understanding that the consumer enacts the development of their identity within the marketplace, it takes as its subject those in…

An analysis of the relationships among income, consumption expenditures, and perceived level of well-being was conducted using data collected from participants two programs, Agroforestry (AF) and Woodlot (WL) of the Participatory Social Forestry Program (PSFP) in Tangail Distric…

Bringing the Tiger into the Parlor: The Consumption of Exotic Objects in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel considers the ways foreign objects are exotified through consumption and display in the domestic settings of novels by Susan Ferrier, Benjamin Disraeli, William Makepeac…

Emerging market financial crises are abrupt and dramatic, usually occurring after a period of high output growth, massive capital flows, and a boom in asset markets. This thesis develops an equilibrium asset pricing model with informational frictions in which vulnerability and t…

This dissertation clarifies ethnoarchaeology's role in post-positivist epistemology through both a critical re-examination of ethnoarchaeology's position within archaeology and a study of household vessel exchange and consumption in the Inland Niger Delta of Mali. I argue that e…

This study analyzes the relationship between saving and public social security for an emerging country, Turkey, that has one of the most generous social security systems in the OECD region. This study is the first of its kind for Turkey, in fact, for any emerging country in the …

In this dissertation, I investigate how the growing market for "ethnic art" is linked to the pursuit of modern and cosmopolitan identities among producers, distributors and consumers. Based on field research in Bali, Indonesia and in California, Georgia and North Carolina, I exa…

The expansion of food-production alone has failed to improve food consumption and access for the majority of the world's poor. The International Food Policy and Research Institute notes that it is common to have 20-30 percent of a country's population consuming less than 80 perc…

Krizler ile birlikte tüketicilerin hayatında yaşanan köklü değişimler, bireylerin tüketim alışkanlıklarını da değiştirmektedir. Tutum ve davranışları değişen tüketiciler için artık tüketici davranışlarını kriz öncesindeki haliyle açıklayan literatür yetersiz kalmaktadır. Bununla…

During the Bronze Age (ca. 3000-1300 BC) in what is now northern Syria, dramatic changes occurred in the size and distribution of settlements as successive populations coalesced and dispersed around shifting, urban centers. The dynamics of regional interaction were altered as th…

This dissertation analyzes the effects of the globalization phenomenon on economic integration patterns and business cycles from three distinct perspectives. The first essay looks at the major economic linkages explaining real GDP correlations for 47 countries during the 1970-20…

Because most theoretical and empirical works in economics concentrate on the developed countries, their relevance to the less developed countries has been questioned by several groups, especially historical and institutional economists. The purpose of the study is to examine the…

Consumption--the throughput of physical material through human lives--is morally complex, and has been inadequately treated in Christian ethical discourse. In this dissertation, I bring together resources from throughout the Christian tradition that can be used in constructing a…

Maternal bargaining power and social welfare programs have received interest from a number of economists, but few have examined them together. This research seeks to uncover sources of a woman's household influence and determine if that influence translates beneficially from mot…

I study three different, although sometimes related, aspects of international economic issues. First of all, the financial crisis of 1997–1998 in Indonesia—while different in many characteristics—is similar in a number of aspects to the subprime crisis in the U.S. a decade later…

Since 2000, the number of international migrants has increased steadily, reaching 258 million in 2017. More than one-third of international migration moves from South to North, basically from developing to developed countries. Like international migration but in opposite directi…

Ridesharing is a shared vehicle service with the potential to meet the growing travel demand due to population increase, economic growth, and shortage in transportation infrastructure capacity. Compared to the current system of predominantly using personal vehicles, ridesharing …

The American architect, Nicolas Negroponte, known for his work on the shift between the physical and digital states of value, critiques modern society’s means of consumption within the digital economy. He states that “the change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable,…