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| Title: | | Can sustainable consumption be learned?  |
| Authors: | | Buenstorf, Guido Cordes, Christian |
| Issue Date: | | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Papers on economics and evolution 0706 |
| Abstract: | | This paper shows how sustainable consumption patterns can spread within a population via processes of social learning even though a strong individual learning bias may favor environmentally harmful products. We present a model depicting how the biased transmission of different behaviors via individual and social learning influences agents' consumption behavior. The underlying learning biases can be traced back to evolved cognitive dispositions. Challenging the vision of a permanent transition toward sustainability, we argue that âgreenâ consumption patterns are not self-reinforcing and cannot be locked in permanently. |
| Subjects: | | Consumer Behavior Cultural Evolution Learning Sustainability Evolutionary Economics |
| JEL: | | D11 D83 Q01 C61 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Papers on Economics and Evolution, MPI für Ökonomik
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