Julia Sophie Woersdorfer

The Evolution of Household Technology and Consumer Behavior, 1800-2000

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How has the washing machine changed the way we spend money? Using the washing of clothes as a microcosm of household economics Woersdorfer examines the evolution of technology and practice over a period of growing industrialization. This new evolutionary account of consumer behaviour marks a move towards a more individualistic approach to economics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2017
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9781848935952
• ISBN-10: 1848935951
• Artikelnr.: 43599161

Autorenporträt

Julia Sophie Woersdorfer received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Jena, Germany in 2010. Afterward, she took a position as a research associate at the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) before joining the Federal Competition Authority (Bundeskartellamt), Germany, as a civil servant.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Beyond Time Substitution: An Evolutionary Economic Analysis into the
Patterns of Cleanliness Consumption
2 Consumption Behavior as a Learning Process
3 The Origin of the Social Norm of Cleanliness
4 Toward the Modern Washday: Major Steps in the Development of Laundry
Technology
5 Consumer Motivations and Washing Machine Advertisements
6 Patterns of Cleanliness Consumption and Time Use
7 Cleanliness Consumption and the Rebound Effect of Energy Efficiency
8 Explaining the Patterns of Cleanliness Consumption