Arbeitspapier
Can sustainable consumption be learned?
This paper shows how sustainable consumption patterns can spread within a population via processes of social learning even though a strong individual learning bias may favor environmentally harmful products. We present a model depicting how the biased transmission of different behaviors via individual and social learning influences agents' consumption behavior. The underlying learning biases can be traced back to evolved cognitive dispositions. Challenging the vision of a permanent transition toward sustainability, we argue that "green" consumption patterns are not self-reinforcing and cannot be locked in permanently.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Papers on Economics and Evolution ; No. 0706
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Consumer Economics: Theory
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
Sustainable Development
Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
- Thema
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Consumer Behavior
Cultural Evolution
Learning
Sustainability
Evolutionary Economics
Konsumentenverhalten
Umweltbewusstsein
Lernprozess
Nachhaltige Entwicklung
Theorie
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Buenstorf, Guido
Cordes, Christian
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Max Planck Institute of Economics
- (wo)
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Jena
- (wann)
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2007
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Buenstorf, Guido
- Cordes, Christian
- Max Planck Institute of Economics
Entstanden
- 2007
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