Active consumer : novelty and surprise in consumer choice, The

Part I. The Hedonics of Taste : Utility, Novelty and Change.
Choice without utility? Some reflections on the loose foundations of standard consumer theory / Fabio Ranchetti.
Economic change, choice and innovation in consumtion / Davide Gualerzi.
Taste for novelty and novel tastes : The role of human agency in consumption / Marina Bianchi.
Part II. Consumers as Producers and Problem Solvers : Consumption Capabilities.
Cognition and innovation / Brian J. Loasby.
The organization of consumption / Richard N. Langlois and Metin M. Cosgel.
Consumer goals as journeys into the unknown / Peter E. Earl.
Part III. Adoption and Diffusion of New Goods : Illustrative Analyses.
Work and the sirens of consumption in eighteenth-century London / Hans-Joachim Voth.
Silk purses out of sows' ears : Mass rarefaction of consumption and the emerging consumer-collector / Guido Guerzoni and Gabriele Troilo.
Novelty, imitation and habit formation in a Scitovskian model of consumption / S. Abu Turab Rizvi and Rajiv Sethi.
Part IV. Consumption and Communication.
Consumption in postmodernity : Social structuration and the construction of the self / Liisa Uusitalo.
On the consumption of sign / Michael Hutter.