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dc.contributor.authorDe Fraja, Giannide
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-03T02:50:00Zde
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-29T23:07:12Z
dc.date.available2012-08-29T23:07:12Z
dc.date.issued2009de
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/30942
dc.description.abstractThis paper proposes an explanation for the universal human desire for increasing consumption and the associated propensity to trade survival opportunity off conspicuous consumption. I argue that this desire was moulded in evolutionary times by a mechanism known to biologists as sexual selection, whereby an observable trait — conspicuous consumption in this case — is used by members of one sex to signal their unobservable characteristics valuable to members of the opposite sex. It then shows that the standard economics problem of utility maximisation is formally equivalent to the standard biology problem of the maximisation of individual fitness, the ability to pass genes to future generations, and thus establishes a rigorous theoretical foundation for including conspicuous consumption in the utility function.en
dc.languageende
dc.subject.ddcWirtschaftde
dc.subject.ddcEconomicsen
dc.subject.otherNatural selection; Utility; Darwin; Conspicuous Consumption; Veblen; Sexual selection
dc.titleThe Origin of Utility: Sexual Selection and Conspicuous Consumptionen
dc.description.reviewbegutachtet (peer reviewed)de
dc.description.reviewpeer revieweden
dc.source.journalJournal of Economic Behavior & Organizationde
dc.source.volume72de
dc.source.issue1de
dc.subject.classozBasic Research, General Concepts and History of Economicsen
dc.subject.classozAllgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Wirtschaftswissenschaftende
dc.subject.thesozEvolutionde
dc.subject.thesozevolutionen
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-309428de
dc.date.modified2012-06-04T09:13:00Zde
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dc.type.documentjournal articleen
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dc.source.pageinfo51-69
internal.identifier.classoz10901
internal.identifier.journal196de
internal.identifier.document32
internal.identifier.ddc330
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2009.05.019de
dc.description.pubstatusPostprinten
dc.description.pubstatusPostprintde
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