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Insatiability: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?
International Research Journal of Agricultural Economics and Statistics
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Insatiability: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?
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Grant, Lyle K.
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Behavior Analysis, Economics
insatiability, satiation, satiation point, habituation, sustainability |
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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 satiation as a natural method for reducing the overconsumption of goods and yielding environmental benefits including a reduction in carbon emissions and lessened demand for nonrenewable resources. Yet cross-cultural data from both developing and developed economies have been unable to fix a satiation point at which the reinforcing effectiveness of income declines. This finding of income insatiability is consistent with the status of money as a powerful generalized reinforcer that is not subject to satiation. A conceptual solution to the problem is to accept and even embrace the insatiability of generalized reinforcers, yet to develop a culture of education and skills that empowers alternative generalized reinforcers to the point at which their effectiveness rivals or exceeds that of income.
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University of Illinois at Chicago Library
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2014-11-27
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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application/pdf
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https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/5346
10.5210/bsi.v23i0.5346 |
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Behavior and Social Issues; Vol 23 (2014); 52-67
1064-9506 |
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eng
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https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/5346/4163
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