Refrain and Revolution

Altruism and self-refrain

We address the issue of altruism when standard-of-living aspirations are transmitted from one generation to the other. In that case, the in uence of altruistic parents is not limited to the bequest they could leave; indeed, they direct the evolution of children's aspirations toward raising their utility by refraining their own consumption standard. We show that, even if there is no bequest, alt...

Energy-Using Durables – Why Consumers Refrain from Economically Optimal Choices

*Correspondence: Renate Schubert , ETH Zürich, Clausiusstrasse 37, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland e-mail: [email protected] Sustainable development requires increasing the energy efficiency, decreasing the growth rates of energy demand, and decreasing the CO2 emissions. In many countries, households’ energy consumption is responsible for a considerable share of total energy demand and CO2 em...

Revolution

After the establishment of written language, the most revolutionary development in human communication was the invention of the printing press in the 15 th century (1). Before then, books were handwritten, rare, and expensive. Medieval monasteries supported the transcription of new manuscripts from existing ones, and errors were common because of spelling, handwriting, and abbreviation idiosync...

Rancière and revolution

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Revolution and renaissance.