比较分析正常性消费与消费主义

随着经济全球化不断深入,消费主义逐渐蔓延于世界各个角落。许多学者把消费主义当做金融危机的诱因进行反思,后危机时代重新审视消费主义价值观和生活方式,出现了反对消费主义扩大化现象,甚至将应对金融危机政府所提出的正常性刺激消费政策误解为在提倡消费主义。究竞消费主义与正常性消费的区别标准是什么？本文试图理清消费主义与正常性消费的区别,着重研究消费主义内涵与特征及消费主义与正常消费的区别标准。     

政治学视角的“消费自由”——兼论生态消费的自由意蕴

消费社会的到来给人们带来了消费自主权和消费选择的自由,推动了消费的大众化和民主化,鼓励了个人主义的滋长,符合古典自由主义的核心理念;但从更深刻的层面看,消费主义与自由并无必然联系,消费主义本身未能从消极自由的角度保证"免于干涉",甚至更暗中阻碍着人的自主自决能力的发展。因此,追求自由的路径在于引导人们远离消费主义生活模式。     

反对消费主义消费观树立绿色和谐的消费观

消费主义消费观念是资本为了攫取剩余价值而宣扬和造就的一种消费至上的消费观念,它不符合人类的长远、可持续的发展目标,更与中国建设资源节约型和环境友好型的社会不相适应,构建适合中国国情的消费模式和观念已成为我们迫切要解决的问题.     

扩大内需背景下的消费伦理构建

消费是经济发展的根本动力,在全球金融危机下,刺激消费、扩大内需对经济的增长与发展尤为重要。但消费也要把握好度,就是要培养具有合理之需、适度消费的观念。消费者在有消费需求倾向时,要用消费伦理对自己的消费欲望进行恰当的、必要的衡量。本文对扩大内需过程中可能出现的消费主义倾向,从消费伦理角度进行客观评价,在分析消费主义表现的同时,提出在国际金融危机背景下需要构建适度消费伦理。     

休闲之大众状态及其与消费的关系

大众文化、消费主义,现代休闲如何游走其间?休闲是人们从时间中解放出来,摆脱功利物欲,能使身心得到完善的体验行为。现代休闲存在于大众向度之中,它表达的是人们对多元化自由的追寻,满足人们当下的审美体验;它需要身心的高度投入,以个性化方式圆满自我。一方面,消费社会是大众休闲产生的滥觞;另一方面,休闲恰恰体现了大众对消费主义的挣扎和反叛。休闲具有更为深刻的、非经济学的意义,即对于人本身的救赎。     

改革开放视阈下我国消费主义的问题、表现及悖论研究

与西方发达资本主义国家嵌入资本逻辑中的消费主义不同,中国社会消费方式的变迁是通过国家制度安排和政策推行自上而下展开的,以发展社会生产力、提高人们生活水平为根本诉求。但是由于全球化进程与改革开放的同步展开,受到西方消费主义文化的传入、渗透,以及传统社会习俗、习惯心态等非正式制度因素的影响,中国人的消费行为同时嵌入经济体制转型的制度框架之中,呈现出独特的媒介化、符号化和夸示性等消费主义或消费文化特征。通过对改革开放三十年来中国人消费方式历史变迁的梳理,本文力图厘清在中国社会转型内在张力中的消费主义问题、表现及其未来趋势。     

资本逻辑下消费心理嬗变与消费主义的生成

进入资本主义工业社会后,在科技迅猛发展、物质极大丰富、传媒影响力剧增的时代背景下,资本为获取利润,通过大众传媒重塑消费观和制造消费欲望等方式,操纵人们的消费心理,使消费由前工业社会的一种基于本能的自主行为,逐渐演变为一种基于资本利益之上的被操纵、被控制行为。随着时间的推移,围绕这种行为形成了一种以纯粹的符号消费为主要特征的消费以及生活方式,这种消费以及生活方式被称为消费主义。     

论生态消费观的构建及其意义

建立在对传统消费主义消费观进行反思基础上的生态消费观,秉承适度消费、绿色消费、人与自然和谐共生等原则,致力于人的全面发展这一终极目标,成为取代消费主义消费观的新型消费生活方式.这一新型消费观的构建,对于经济社会的协调健康发展和物质文明与精神文明的全面进步具有着重要的现实意义.     

消费主义对当代青年身份认同影响机制分析

消费主义作为一种源自西方资本主义社会的意识形态,随着全球化和现代媒体的发展逐渐在世界范围内渗透和传播,对当代青年产生了深远的影响。文章尝试从"认识——接受——解构——重建"这四个环节入手,分析消费主义对青年身份认同影响的传递机制、共振机制、渗透机制和内化机制,从而为我们利用这种影响机制反向建构符合中国社会需要的价值认同提供理论依据。     

浅析消费主义在校园传播的推动因素

随着中国经济的不断发展,人民物质生活水平稳步提高,服务于资本主义的消费主义悄然进入中国,不断冲击着人们的消费观念和消费方式。消费途径、方式和目的的多样化推动了消费主义进驻校园,这些因素作用于思想不成熟、善于接受新事物、求新和求异的大学生,让部分学生迷失在消费苦海之中。消费主义作用下,大学生消费行为具有盲目性、超前性、攀比性等特点,换言之,消费主义思潮正通过不同渠道影响大学生消费行为。     

消费主义与我国旅游消费的异化

本文在对消费主义及其危害进行概述的基础上，指出在我国日益升温的旅游消费中出现了明显的消费主义倾向，集中表现为大众旅游消费的趋从性和高端旅游消费的炫耀性。文中对我国旅游消费中消费主义产生的原因进行了管理层次和心理层次的分析，提出了建设可持续旅游消费的若干建议。     

消费主义的中国版及其生态影响

随着经济的逐渐崛起和社会财富的增加，西方消费主义逐渐在我国流行开来。消费主义的流行，对于拉动需求，促进经济增长固然有所贡献，但其产生的生态消极影响却不容乐观。消费主义与构建节约性社会实际上是相背离的。以我国人口之众，自然资源之紧缺，生态环境之脆弱，只有抑制西方式的消费主义，倡导适合我国国情的适度消费，才能实现经济社会的可持续发展。     

适度消费与环境保护

本文从经济活动的消费入手,揭示过度消费对环境造成的巨大危害并分析其原因,进而提出适度消费的观点和实行适度消费的两点建议。     

Marx, devalorisation, and the theory of value

This article investigates the implications of devalorisationof fixed capital in Marx's value theory. It shows why an exact,algebraic value theory is impossible. It also indicates howanalysis of devalorisation provides a basis for understandingthe nature of crises.     

Do financial distress and liquidity crises affect value and size premiums?

This study investigates the impact of liquidity crises on the relationship between stock (value and size) premiums and default risk in the US market. It first examines whether financial distress can explain value and size premiums, and then, subsequently, aims to determine whether liquidity crises increase the risk of value and size premium investment strategies. The study employs a time-varying approach and a sample of US stock returns for the period between January 1982 and March 2011, a period which includes the current liquidity crisis, so as to examine the relationship between default risk, liquidity crises and value and size premiums. The findings indicate that the default premium has explanatory power for value and size premiums, which affect firms with different characteristics. We also find that liquidity crises may actually increase the risks related to size and value premium strategies.     

Conformity and the Demand for Environmental Goods

The existing literature on eco-labeling and green consumerism has been framed within a classical market context where price and quality are the drivers of consumer choice. However, it seems possible that consumers are also concerned about the choices made by other consumers. In fact, it is unclear that people’s consumption decisions are made independently of social context. For instance, under the desire to conform to certain social norms—or in the presence of status concerns—some individuals may be willing to pay a higher price premium for green products the more widespread green consumerism is in society. We test this hypothesis using a choice experiment where the respondents were asked to choose among coffee products varying with respect to their share of ecological beans, share of fair trade beans, and price. Three treatments were used, differing only in the information given about the choices made by other consumers. We find different responses to the treatments across individuals and we can only confirm our hypothesis of conformity for women, although men appear to have stronger preferences for ecological coffee than women have.     

Introduction: Reform in the Provision of Health Care

The term “sustainable consumption” is subject to many interpretations, from Agenda 21's hopeful assertion that governments should encourage less materialistic lifestyles based on new definitions of “wealth” and “prosperity”, to the view prevalent in international policy discourse that green and ethical consumerism will be sufficient to transform markets to produce continual and “clean” economic growth. These different perspectives are examined using a conceptual framework derived from Cultural Theory, to illustrate their fundamentally competing beliefs about the nature of the environment and society, and the meanings attached to consumption. Cultural Theory argues that societies should develop pluralistic policies to include all perspectives. Using this framework, the paper examines the UK strategy for sustainable consumption, and identifies a number of failings in current policy. These are that the UK strategy is strongly biased towards individualistic, market-based and neo-liberal policies, so it can only respond to a small part of the problem of unsustainable consumption. Policy recommendations include measures to strengthen the input from competing cultures, to realize the potential for more collective, egalitarian and significantly less materialistic consumption patterns.