As first suggested by Keynes (1930), much thinking about the future of consumption starts with claims about future income, technology or demographics, perhaps concocted in a growth model, and then considers what consumption will look like, as a separate question, given those priors. A different approach starts one step further back with inquiry into the type of institutions that would produce such evolutionary growth. You then ask how those same institutions would shape consumption. I argue that the future of consumption depends on income and innovation, which themselves depend on the evolution of institutions. I suggest that this is an evolutionary economic approach to the future of consumption.
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Potts, J. (2019). Institutions Hold Consumption on a Leash: An Evolutionary Economic Approach to the Future of Consumption. In Economic Complexity and Evolution (pp. 37–50). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02423-9_3
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