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Consumption Practices and Reproductive Behaviour
from Part I - Foundations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2025
Chapters 7 and 8 studied externalities that travel in the material world. In fact, externalities are embedded in a larger space. The social world can be as powerful a carrier of externalities as the material environment. A common form in which they appear in the social world is in the way our relationships influence our preferences and wants.
In Chapter 6, aspects of human relationships were studied in terms of the underpinnings of laws and social norms. Here we further probe the factors that are at the heart of human relationships. The features of personhood we examine here will be found to be of special significance for policy, for they tell us about the human motivations that drive population numbers (N) and the standard of living (y), both of which appeared in the Impact Inequality (Chapter 4).
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