High consumers contribute to environmental degradation through their own consumption
practices and the setting of societal material aspirations. This review of research on …

Fully revised and updated, this second edition of Water Ethics continues to consolidate
water ethics as a key dimension of water-related decisions. The book introduces the idea …

This paper argues that the ability of dominant corporations in the fossil fuel and other
polluting industries to shape government policy on climate change and energy issues is …

Modern civilization and the social reproduction of capitalism are bound inextricably with
fossil fuel consumption. But as carbon energy resources become scarcer, what implications …

Who are the dominant owners of US public debt? Is it widely held, or concentrated in the
hands of a few? Does ownership of public debt give these bondholders power over our …

Ecological disorganization stemming from conspicuous consumption practices is
understudied in the social sciences. In this analysis, we study conspicuous consumption and …

Extreme inequality and the wealth concentrated in the hands of the richest 1% is gaining
increasing attention. However, these debates often do not include discussion of …

The prevalent consensus in critical social sciences is that finance articulates the world
economy as a global hierarchy of creditor-debtor relations that reproduce and further …

Purpose This study aims to address the need to empirically investigate the luxury customer
service experiences of the ultra-high-net-worth individual (UHNWI) segment by conducting …

This article offers new theoretical and empirical insights to explain the resilience of US
Treasury securities as the world's premier safe or “risk-free” asset. The standard explanation …