But in the real world, rising prices cause companies and consumers to change their consumption patterns.
They tend to modify their consumption patterns when prices change, even if their purchasing power doesn't.
For these goals to be meaningful and comprehensive, many would argue they have to cover consumption patterns in rich nations.
This is an interesting contrast to mobile voice and SMS consumption patterns.
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There are those intellectuals who argue that scarcity would not exist if we would all just adjust our consumption patterns.
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But singles are multiplying in emerging economies too and are changing consumption patterns.
Which policies and institutions are needed to support new energy systems and promote production and consumption patterns that would foster sustainable energy access?
Both companies have long enjoyed near-monopolies in their respective industries that are now threatened by shifts in media consumption patterns enabled by the internet.
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Now media consumption patterns are rapidly shifting to encompass a broader cross section of the population due to the ubiquity of digital content on-demand.
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In addition to the major industry sector shifts that are underway, there is also a geographical shift that is changing consumption patterns in the country.
Global consumption patterns appear almost limitless and are so wasteful.
With respect to the arbitrage support for WTI oil, we view global oil consumption patterns to be relatively intact despite recent slowdowns in emerging market economies (especially India and China).
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That strategy remains highly consistent with social consumption patterns that revolve insight and perspective from knowledgeable individuals a trend we believe only intensifies in the rapidly emerging mobile world.
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The challenge to traditional consumer consumption patterns (which is driven by creating demand for items for consumers to purchase and own) lies in questioning the need to always own something.
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However, the fees declined sharply in 2009 due to a decline in card income resulting from lower cash advances and lower interchange fees caused by changes in consumption patterns in the recessionary environment.
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Over the last months, Forbes has started to operationalize parts of the The New Newsroom, particularly its feedback components that enable staffers and our expert, topic-specific contributors to better understand audience behavior and consumption patterns.
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To this end, the first thing to do is to learn: find out about biodiversity in your city, region and country, and about how your consumption patterns and everyday actions impact biodiversity both locally and globally.
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Yet according to a report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), published on June 23rd, changes in consumption patterns and production techniques mean that the trade is becoming less globalised and somewhat less alluring.
Major League Baseball must come to terms with the fact that viewership for World Series games will no longer approach a 30.0 rating and must readjust their expectations to reflect modesty and the current consumption patterns of consumers.
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And of course even when that high minded (and might I say single with no kids) individual committed their principles to action I would want to wait for the longitudinal study to come in before changing my consumption patterns.
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"It excludes the majority of housing costs faced by homeowners and differences in calculation mean it may be considered a better representation of the way consumers change their consumption patterns in response to price changes, " the 2010 Budget document explained.
Changes in electric use by demand-side resources from their normal consumption patterns in response to changes in the price of electricity, or to incentive payments designed to induce lower electricity use at times of high wholesale market prices or when system reliability is jeopardized.
The implications for business are that healthy Japanese pensioners are living normal lives for longer: in other words, they have consumption patterns that are not that different from those of younger people, although they tend to spend more on services and less on goods.
Key themes of SD in the region include among other things poverty alleviation, citizenship, peace, ethics, responsibility in local and global contexts, democracy and governance, justice, security, human rights, health, gender equity, cultural diversity, rural and urban development, economy, production and consumption patterns, corporate social responsibility, environmental protection, climate change, prevention and adaptation, natural resource management, biological and landscape diversity.
However, the Asia-Pacific region is attempting to reverse unsustainable consumption and production patterns by embarking on a greener development path.
Consumption and savings patterns are changing in the developed and emerging markets.
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Holding rates of interest far below market levels (which is the goal of stimulus) alters patterns of consumption, savings, and investment.
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To some noses, the notion of changing patterns of consumption from above carries a distinct whiff of Big Brother, and is to be resisted on principle.
In times of economic woe, when normal patterns of consumption and investment are frozen, prodigal government spending can sometimes be the only way to break the vicious circle of declining demand and shrinking employment.
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