*Conspicuous Consumption, Inconspicuous Leisure
*Conspicuous Consumption, Inconspicuous Leisure
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*炫耀性消费，不起眼的休闲
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2009
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通讯作者：
P. Dasgupta
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作者：
K. Arrow;P. Dasgupta
人们通常认为，由于相对消费似乎对人们很重要，他们必须参与“老鼠赛跑”：人们比最佳公共政策更努力工作，消费更多。但是，尽管今天消费更多会改善一个人现在的相对消费，但它会恶化一个人未来的相对消费。在这篇文章中，我们确定的幸福功能的结构，这两个效果正好相互抵消。这一发现在某种程度上解释了为什么家庭调查表明相对消费很重要，但家庭的消费行为并没有明确指出相对消费效应的存在。版权所有©作者。期刊编译©皇家经济学会2009。
It is commonly argued that because relative consumption appears to matter to people, they must be involved in a 'rat race': people work harder and consume more than they would have were optimum public policies in place. But although consuming more today would improve one's relative consumption now, it would worsen one's relative consumption in the future. In this article we identify the structure of felicity functions for which the two effects offset each other exactly. The finding goes some way toward explaining why, while household surveys suggest that relative consumption matters, the consumption behaviour of households has not pointed unambiguously to the presence of relative consumption effects. Copyright © The Author(s). Journal compilation © Royal Economic Society 2009.
影响因子：
8.4
作者：
Deaton, Angus
通讯作者：
Deaton, Angus