Escaping Satiation

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VIII

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2. Consumption, demand, and economic growth — an introduction

   1. Consumption, demand, and economic growth — an introduction

      • Ulrich Witt

      Pages 1-10

3. Economic growth and the evolution of preferences

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Cognition, imagination and institutions in demand creation

      • Brian J. Loasby

      Pages 13-27

   3. Learning to consume — A theory of wants and the growth of demand

      • Ulrich Witt

      Pages 29-42

   4. Consumption, preferences, and the evolutionary agenda

      • J. S. Metcalfe

      Pages 43-64

   5. The demand for distinction and the evolution of the prestige car

      • G. M. Peter Swann

      Pages 65-81

4. Qualitative change and the interactions between demand and supply

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. Demand as a factor in the industrial revolution: A historical note

      • Joel Mokyr

      Pages 85-96

   3. Knowledge, consumption, and endogenous growth

      • Richard N. Langlois

      Pages 97-113

   4. Variety, growth and demand

      • Pier Paolo Saviotti

      Pages 115-138

   5. The economic contribution of information technology: Towards comparative and user studies

      • Timothy F. Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein

      Pages 139-162

5. The satiation problem

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. Satiation in an evolutionary model of structural economic dynamics

      • Esben Sloth Andersen

      Pages 165-186

   3. Satiation in an international economy

      • Josef Falkinger

      Pages 187-197

6. Back Matter

   Pages 199-199

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The collection of papers presented in this special issue arose out of two events. The first was the symposium "Escaping Satiation - Increasing Product Variety, Preference Change and the Demand Side of Economic Growth" which was held at the Max Planck Institute in Jena, Germany, in December 1997. The Fritz Thyssen Foundation provided financial support for this seminal symposium which is gratefully acknowledged. Wilhelm Ruprecht was of great help in preparing the symposium and I would like to express my gratitude to hirn on this occasion. Many stimulating exchanges with hirn over the past few years while he was a research associate at the Institute working on long term changes in consumption convinced me of the relevance and importance of this problem for understanding modem economic growth. I also owe thanks to many people who encouraged me to go ahead with the symposium, among them Stanley Metcalfe, Carl Christian von Weizsäcker, and also Ehud Zuscovitch, who died so unexpectedly last year.

• (economic)growth
• Growth Theory
• Konsum
• Nachfrage
• Wachstumstheorie
• consumtion
• demand
• economic growth
• growth
• satiaction

• Evolutionary Economics Unit, Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems, Jena, Germany

  Ulrich Witt

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