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Consumer behaviour is the study of individuals, groups, or organisations and all activities associated with the purchase, use and disposal of goods and services.It encompasses how the consumer's emotions, attitudes, and preferences affect buying behaviour.
James Stemble Duesenberry (July 18, 1918 – October 5, 2009 [1]) was an American economist.He made a significant contribution to the Keynesian analysis of income and employment with his 1949 doctoral thesis Income, Saving and the Theory of Consumer Behavior.
Consumer behavior over time is irreversible. This means that when income declines, consumer spending is sticky to the former level. After getting used to a level of consumption, a person shows resistance to reducing it and is unwilling to reduce that level of consumption. This phenomenon is called the ratchet effect.
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The theory of consumer choice is the branch of microeconomics that relates preferences to consumption expenditures and to consumer demand curves.It analyzes how consumers maximize the desirability of their consumption (as measured by their preferences subject to limitations on their expenditures), by maximizing utility subject to a consumer budget constraint. [1]
George Katona (6 November 1901, Budapest – 18 June 1981, West Berlin) [1] was a Hungarian-born American psychologist who was one of the first to advocate a rapprochement between economics and psychology.
Consumer behavior models – practical models used by marketers. They typically blend both economic and psychological models. They typically blend both economic and psychological models. In an early study of the buyer decision process literature, Frank Nicosia (Nicosia, F. 1966; pp 9–21) identified three types of buyer decision-making models.
Conventional theory holds that the consumer plays no independent role in whether the recession or growth of the economy. Orthodox theory holds that the consumer cannot directly cause recessions since consumer behavior is completely determined by other economic factors, such as wages, prices, interest rates, and the like.