The extent of departures from debt neutrality when future income is uncertain
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Income uncertainty can affect attitudes to debt and whether tax cuts are saved or consumed when taxes are later expected to rise. Some consumers will save the whole of a cut, while others are less foresighted and will consume the whole of a cut. Theorists vary in the extent to which they see consumers as conforming to one of these two extremes. Responses tend to be foresighted rather than myopic, but they also tend to be less extreme than some theorists have argued.
Publication Name: The Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0025-2034
Year: 1997
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The quantity of style: imaginary consumption in the New Russia
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Issues related to the consumer culture in post-Soviet Russia are examined, focusing on an analysis of essays written by 178 Siberian students regarding the consumer society. Topics include differences between Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, the "new Russian consumer," the relationship between consumption patterns and political change, and women's role in consumption.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2000
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Conspicuous consumption: The figure of the serial killer as cannibal in the age of capitalism
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A conceptual model for the way ideas, conceptions, or feelings are represented of figured in memory with the help of the imagination which constitutes part of the children's memory-image of the serial killer in both fact and fiction The rhetorical network that surrounds cannibalism offers imagination a topos for the memory-image of the serial killer.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2005
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