Human Development and Humane Consumption: Well-Being beyond the “Good Life”

In pursuit of the "good life," less affluent societies focus on the material-that is, consumption and economic development. The author discusses human and environmental consequences of this focus. She suggests alternative emergent ideologies, structures and processes, and practices to enable the enhancing potential of goods and thus move toward well-being, which she proposes to entail humane consumption embedded in human development.

Human Development and Humane Consumption: Well-Being beyond the “Good Life”’, GülizGerJournal of Public Policy & Marketing, 16(1) (1997): 110–125. Published by the American Marketing Association. Reprinted with permission.
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