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Income, Saving, and the Theory of Consumer Behavior

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The article was published on 1949-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2738 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Permanent income hypothesis & Marginal propensity to save.

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The happiness of sociality. Economics and eudaimonia: A necessary encounter:

TL;DR: The relationship between happiness and sociality is discussed in this article, where the authors argue that if research on happiness aims at taking into account non-instrumental interpersonal relations, scholars will profit by a reconsideration or retrieving of the Aristotelian tradition of happiness as eudaimonia.
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The Origin of Behavior

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a single evolutionary explanation for the origin of several behaviors observed in organisms ranging from ants to human subjects, including risk sensitive foraging, risk aversion, loss aversion, probability matching, randomization, and diversification.
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The Macroeconomic Relationship between Advertising and Consumption

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the relationship between aggregate advertising and aggregate consumption and show that advertising is a zero-sum game between consumers and advertisers, and that the effect of advertising on consumption is a function of the advertising level.
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Quality of Life: Factors Determining its Measurement Complexity

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined factors determining ąuality of life and complexity of their measurement, and provided insights into opportunities for the development and implementation of ąual of life studies.