Human development and humane consumption: well-being beyond the "good life"
Date
1997
Authors
Ger, G.
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Source Title
Journal of Public Policy and Marketing
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0748-6766
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Sage Publications
Volume
16
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1
Pages
110 - 125
Language
English
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Abstract
In pursuit of the "good life," less affluent societies focus on the material - that is, consumption and economic development. The author discusses human and environmental consequences of this focus. She suggests alternative emergent ideologies, structures and processes, and practices to enable the enhancing potential of goods and thus move toward well-being, which she proposes to entail humane consumption embedded in human development.