Market and Nonmarket Determinants of Private Consumption and their Impacts on the Environment
Author(s)
Cogoy, Mario
Abstract
Consumption is an activity that combines market and non-market elements. The environmental impacts of consumption depend not only on the physical requirements of market production, but also on the social and institutional frameworks that determine the boundary between market and non-market aspects of consumption. This paper argues that environmental degradation results from a bias in the consumption process toward a predominance of market relations and an excess of paid labor in industrial society.
