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This chapter is concerned with how far consumption is linked to welfare, and therefore with how far it is possible to reduce consumption while maintaining or perhaps improving welfare, even leaving aside the ecological (Chapter 2) and employment (Chapter 3) costs of consumption. As Schumacher puts it, ‘… since consumption is merely a means to human well-being, the aim should he to obtain the maximum of wellbeing with the minimum of consumption’ (1973, pp. 47–8).
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© 2002 Roy Carr-Hill and John Lintott
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Carr-Hill, R., Lintott, J. (2002). Consumption. In: Consumption, Jobs and the Environment. Global Issues Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230501669_4
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