Description

• Title:
  New consumer trends
• Creator:
  Zalega, Tomasz
• Contributor:
  University of Warsaw;
  Professor of University of Warsaw Tomasz Zalega Ph.D. Specializes in research in the theory of consumption, consumer behavior and the labor market; coordinator and author of curricula and textbooks of micro- and macroeconomics in the Polish Virtual University; the member of the Central Committee of Economic Knowledge Contest organized by the Polish Economic Society; author of over 180 scientific papers published locally and internationally, including 12 books in the field of micro- and macroeconomics and consumption.
• Description:
  The aim of the discussion is to examine the new trends observed in consumer behaviour of today’s households around the world. This article contains a purely theoretical analysis of the new trends. Its structure is as follows: after explaining the concept of a consumption trend and its main characteristics, the further part of this text analyses the key “new” or “alternative” consumer trends, such as: deconsumption, eco-consumption, conscious consumption, collaborative consumption, freeganism, prosumption, smart shopping and cocooning, followed by a conclusion.;
  Wydanie współfinansowane ze środków Miasta Łodzi w ramach zadania “Współpraca z wyższymi uczelniami” – umowa 100/03/2014
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  © Copyright by University of Łódź, 2015
• Date:
  2015.09.07;
  2015
• Type:
  Book chapter
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  “Towards a green economy. From ideas to practice”, ed. M. Burchard-Dziubińska, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2015;
• Subject:
  consumption;
  consumption trends;
  deconsumption;
  eco-consumption;
  collaborative consumption;
  freeganism;
  smart shopping;
  cocooning
• Identifier:
  T. Zalega, New consumer trends, [w:] Towards a green economy. From ideas to practice, ed. M. Burchard-Dziubińska, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2015, s. 79–92.;
  978-83-7969-622-2;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/11727 ;
  978-83-7969-623-9
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text