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Personal consumption accounts for two thirds of GDP, yet recent economic events have emphasised our limited ability to translate consumption patterns into policy. Steven Silver analyses this understudied area, exploring the network memberships that emerge from our everyday lives, and the consumption patterns these create.

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Introduction A Disequilibrium Model of Interactive Consumers Environments of Networked Consumers: Random Processes in the Generation of Institutional Forms Clustering and Content Overlap in Networked Consumers Integrating Work and Consumption: Cross-domain Transfer of Skill and Affect Networked Consumers of Information in Economic Growth Summary and Discussion

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STEVEN D. SILVER is Professor and Lucas Fellow at the Lucas Graduate School of Business, California State University, USA.

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