concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: underconsumption

underconsumption
type: Concept
broader: waste issues and solutions
definition: The term underconsumption is used in very different contexts, making an unambiguous definition difficult. On one hand, it is a historically and culturally placed concept based on specific premises developed in the classic Western European liberal economic theories of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage; Underconsumption]

waste issues and solutions
type: Concept
narrower: underconsumption