It is difficult to overstate the importance of personal consumption both to individual consumers and to the economy. While consumer&, are recognized as valuing market goods and services for the activities they can construct from them in the frameworks of several disciplines, consequences of the characteristics of goods and services they use in these activities have not been well studied. In the discourse to follow, I will contrast knowledge-yielding and conventional goods and services as factors in the construction of activities that consumers engage in when they are not in the workplace. Consumers will be seen as deciding on non-work activities and the inputs to these activities according to their objectives, and the values and cumulated skills they hold. I will suggest that knowledge content in these activities can be efficient for consumer objectives and also have important externalities through its effect on productivity at work and economic growth. The exposition will seek to elaborate these points and contribute to multi disciplinal dialogue on consumption. It takes as its starting point the contention that consumption is simultaneously an economic and social psychological process and that integration of content can contribute to explanation.
Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Dimensioning Consumption: The Use of Knowledge in Non-Work Activities. 3. The Construct of the Valuing of Knowledge and Personal Consumption Expenditure in the U.S. National Accounts 1929-1989. 4. The Interaction of Non-Work and Work Activities: Cross-Domain Transfers of Skill and Affect. 5. Integrating Non-Work Activities Into Frameworks of Economic Growth. 6. Directions for the Study of Knowledge Use in Non-Work Activities. Appendix: Story Sample for Content Analyses of the Value Constructs. Index.
It is difficult to overstate the importance of personal consumption both to individual consumers and to the economy. While consumer&, are recognized as valuing market goods and services for the activities they can construct from them in the frameworks of several disciplines, consequences of the characteristics of goods and services they use in these activities have not been well studied. In the discourse to follow, I will contrast knowledge-yielding and conventional goods and services as factors in the construction of activities that consumers engage in when they are not in the workplace. Consumers will be seen as deciding on non-work activities and the inputs to these activities according to their objectives, and the values and cumulated skills they hold. I will suggest that knowledge content in these activities can be efficient for consumer objectives and also have important externalities through its effect on productivity at work and economic growth. The exposition will seek to elaborate these points and contribute to multi disciplinal dialogue on consumption. It takes as its starting point the contention that consumption is simultaneously an economic and social psychological process and that integration of content can contribute to explanation.
1. Introduction.- Introduction: Consuming Knowledge.- Plan of the Exposition.- Contrasting Disciplinal Frameworks in the Study of Consumption.- Studying Non-Work Activities.- An Interactive System in Non-Work Activities.- Estimation of the Activity System.- Disturbances to the Activity System: Studying Effects of Environments.- Summary and Conclusions.- Notes.- References.- 2. Dimensioning Consumption: The Use of Knowledge in Non-Work Activities.- Factor Inputs in Non-Work Activities.- Consumer Objectives in Non-Work Activities.- Identity-Yielding Non-Work Activities.- Functional Form for a Multi-Factor Non-Work Activity System.- Dynamic Properties of the Activity System.- Examining the Sensitivities of Dynamic Activities through Simulation.- Summary and Conclusions.- Notes.- Appendix: Multi-Factor Activity System.- References.- 3. The Construct of the Valuing of Knowledge and Personal Consumption Expenditure in the U.S. National Accounts 1929-1989.- Measurement of the Value Constructs.- Constructing the Value Series.- Examining the Relationship between the Value and Experience Stock Constructs and Personal Consumption Expenditure.- Investigating Dynamic Variation in the Value Constructs: Income and Education Effects.- Summary and Conclusions.- Notes.- Appendix A: Unit Root Tests.- Appendix B: Autocorrelation-Robust Regression Estimates.- Appendix C: Value Construct Data.- References.- 4. The Interaction of Non-work and Work Activities: Cross-domain Transfers of Skill and Affect.- Introduction: The Study of Transfers between Non-Work and Work Domains.- Representing Interaction in the Non-Work and Work Domains.- Cross-Domain Productivity Effects.- Evaluating the Sensitivity of Work Activities to the Intensity of Knowledge in Non-Work Activities.- Discussion.- Summary andConclusions.- References.- 5. Integrating Non-work Activities into Frameworks of Economic Growth.- Production from Knowledge in Growth Frameworks.- Linking Consumption to Growth through Non-Work Activities.- Growth Model.- Comparative Study of Non-Work Activities in Economic Growth.- Summary and Conclusions.- Notes.- References.- 6. Directions for the Study of Knowledge Use in Non-Work Activities.- Summary of the Exposition.- Investigating the Acquisition and Use of Knowledge in Non-Work Activities: Overview of an Agenda.- Conceptualization and Measurement of Stocks of Knowledge in Non-Work Activities.- The Construct of the Valuing of Knowledge and Knowledge Use in Non-Work Activities.- Constructing Identity in Non-Work Activities: Integrating Environments and Agency.- Institutional Environments of Non-Work Activities.- Extending the Activity Framework.- Conclusions.- Notes.- References.- Appendix: Story Sample for Content Analyses of the Value Constructs.
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Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Dimensioning Consumption: The Use of Knowledge in Non-Work Activities. 3. The Construct of the Valuing of Knowledge and Personal Consumption Expenditure in the U.S. National Accounts 1929-1989. 4. The Interaction of Non-Work and Work Activities: Cross-Domain Transfers of Skill and Affect. 5. Integrating Non-Work Activities Into Frameworks of Economic Growth. 6. Directions for the Study of Knowledge Use in Non-Work Activities. Appendix: Story Sample for Content Analyses of the Value Constructs. Index.
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It is difficult to overstate the importance of personal consumption both to individual consumers and to the economy. While consumer&, are recognized as valuing market goods and services for the activities they can construct from them in the frameworks of several disciplines, consequences of the characteristics of goods and services they use in these activities have not been well studied. In the discourse to follow, I will contrast knowledge-yielding and conventional goods and services as factors in the construction of activities that consumers engage in when they are not in the workplace. Consumers will be seen as deciding on non-work activities and the inputs to these activities according to their objectives, and the values and cumulated skills they hold. I will suggest that knowledge content in these activities can be efficient for consumer objectives and also have important externalities through its effect on productivity at work and economic growth. The exposition will seek to elaborate these points and contribute to multi disciplinal dialogue on consumption. It takes as its starting point the contention that consumption is simultaneously an economic and social psychological process and that integration of content can contribute to explanation.
