"How much do you agree or disagree with the following statement: We'd all be better off if we consumed less." That's a survey item reported in a new study by University of Oregon researcher Ezra ...
Environmental scientist Jesse Ausubel remembers the moment his research trajectory changed. Over dinner one night in 1987, his friend and colleague Robert Herman, a physicist with a wide range of ...
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. "How much further should the affluent world push its ...
Andrew McAfee, co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, explains how the U.S. economy is growing and actually using less and less stuff to do so. Thanks to new... Andrew McAfee, ...
Today we use far fewer materials than we once did to get the same things done—a phenomenon known as “dematerialization.” But, paradoxically, this efficiency seems to drive up overall consumption. In ...
Greater efficiency is one benefit of innovation. Making more with less. Sometimes that can mean making more products with fewer workers. But the history of the US economy and innovation is also about ...
a paper published in the Journal of Consumer Research and cited thousands of times since. The term was an attempt at explaining why “knowingly or unknowingly, intentionally or unintentionally, we ...
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