Landscape in the Economy of Conspicuous Consumptions
10 Pages Posted: 30 May 2010
Date Written: May 7, 2010
Abstract
Psychological states side by side with the bounded rational expectations among social agents contributes to the pattern of consumptions in economic system. One of the psychological states are the envy – a tendency to emulate any gaps with other agents’ properties. The evolutionary game theoretic works on conspicuous consumption are explored by growing the micro-view of economic agency in lattice-based populations, the landscape of consumptions. The emerged macro-view of multiple equilibria is shown in computational simulative demonstrations altogether with the spatial clustered agents based upon the emerged agents’ economic profiles.
Keywords: conspicuous consumption, behavioral economics, agent-based simulations
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