INSATIABILITY: PART OF THE PROBLEM OR PART OF THE SOLUTION?
Economic satiation is the idea that once people have attained an adequate level of income and consumption they reach a satiation point at which income and consumer goods become less effective as reinforcers and as sources of satisfaction. Advocates of a sustainable society have seen economic satiati...
| Publicado en: | Behavior & Social Issues Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 52 - 68 |
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Springer Nature
May2014
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