| Preface | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Introduction: Consuming Knowledge | p. 1 |
| Plan of the Exposition | p. 6 |
| Contrasting Disciplinal Frameworks in the Study of Consumption | p. 7 |
| Studying Non-Work Activities | p. 10 |
| An Interactive System in Non-Work Activities | p. 10 |
| System Constructs: Activities, Experience Stocks and Values | p. 10 |
| System Dynamics: Activity Feedbacks | p. 13 |
| System Properties | p. 17 |
| Dynamics of the System in a Two-Activity Case | p. 20 |
| Estimation of the Activity System | p. 23 |
| Multi-wave Panel Data | p. 24 |
| Results | p. 26 |
| Disturbances to the Activity System: Studying Effects of Environments | p. 27 |
| Dimensions of Activity Disturbances | p. 28 |
| Estimating the Sensitivity of the Activity System to Disturbance Parameters | p. 28 |
| Method | p. 29 |
| Results | p. 29 |
| Structural Differences in Abilities to Manage Activity Disturbances | p. 32 |
| Summary and Conclusions | p. 34 |
| Notes | p. 36 |
| References | p. 39 |
| Dimensioning Consumption: the Use of Knowledge in Non-Work Activities | p. 47 |
| Introduction | p. 47 |
| Factor Inputs in Non-Work Activities | p. 47 |
| Consumer Objectives in Non-Work Activities | p. 50 |
| Identity-Yielding Non-Work Activities | p. 54 |
| Functional form for a Multi-Factor Non-Work Activity System | p. 58 |
| Dynamic Properties of the Activity System | p. 60 |
| Examining the Sensitivities of Dynamic Activities Through Simulation | p. 61 |
| Simulation Exercises | p. 61 |
| Summary and Conclusions | p. 70 |
| Notes | p. 72 |
| Multi-Factory Activit System | p. 73 |
| References | p. 74 |
| The Construct of the Valuing of Knowledge and Personal Consumption Expenditure in the U.S. National Accounts 1929-1989 | p. 77 |
| Introduction | p. 77 |
| Measurement of the Value Constructs | p. 78 |
| Operationally Defining the Constructs | p. 79 |
| Method | p. 81 |
| Constructing the Value Series | p. 83 |
| Examining the Relationship Between the Value and Experience Stock Constructs and Personal Consumption Expenditure | p. 85 |
| Estimating Expenditure Functions: Co-Integrated Regression Models | p. 88 |
| Personal Consumption Expenditure | p. 90 |
| Books and Maps as Knowledge-Yielding Personal Consumption | p. 90 |
| Estimating an Expenditure Function for Books and Maps | p. 97 |
| Estimating an Expenditure Function for Knowledge-Yielding Goods and Services | p. 100 |
| Estimating Expenditure Functions for Positional and Recreational Goods and Services | p. 101 |
| Summary of Model Estimations for Personal Consumption Expenditure | p. 103 |
| Investigating Dynamic Variation in the Value Constructs: Income and Education Effects | p. 103 |
| Dynamic Relationships Between the Value Constructs | p. 104 |
| Income Level as a Source of Variation in the Value Constructs: Disposable Personal Income and the Valuing of Possessions | p. 106 |
| Education Level as a Source of Variation in the Value Constructs: Educational Attainment and the Valuing of Knowledge | p. 108 |
| Summary of Relationships between Income, Education and the Value Constructs | p. 109 |
| Summary and Conclusions | p. 111 |
| Notes | p. 113 |
| Unit Root Tests | p. 116 |
| Autocorrelation-Robust | |
| Regression Estimates | p. 118 |
| Value Construct Data | p. 123 |
| References | p. 124 |
| The Interaction of Non-Work and Work Activities: Cross-Domain Transfers of Skill and Affect | p. 127 |
| Introduction: the Study of Transfers Between Non-Work and Work Domains | p. 127 |
| Representing Interaction in the Non-Work and Work Domains | p. 131 |
| Cross-Domain Productivity Effects | p. 137 |
| Independence | p. 139 |
| Complimentarity | p. 139 |
| Consistency | p. 139 |
| Evaluating the Sensitivity of Work Activities to the Intensity of Knowledge in Non-Work Activities | p. 140 |
| Evaluating the sign of df/de[subscript l] for Alternative Forms of f | p. 140 |
| Multiplicative forms of f | p. 140 |
| Additive Forms of f | p. 141 |
| Discussion | p. 143 |
| Summary and Conclusions | p. 147 |
| References | p. 149 |
| Integrating Non-Work Activities Into Frameworks of Economic Growth | p. 151 |
| Introduction | p. 151 |
| Production from Knowledge in Growth Frameworks | p. 151 |
| Neo-Classical Growth Models | p. 151 |
| Endogenous Growth Models | p. 152 |
| Human Capital: Consumer Investments in Education | p. 153 |
| RandD and Non-Rival Knowledge: Investment in Knowledge by the Firm | p. 153 |
| Linking Consumption to Growth Through Non-Work Activities | p. 155 |
| Growth through the Intensity of Knowledge Use in Non-work Activities | p. 157 |
| Skilling through Non-work Activities | p. 157 |
| Integrating Non-Work Activities into a Growth Model | p. 158 |
| Inventions that Mediate the Integration of Non-work Skilling into Work Activities | p. 159 |
| Growth Model | p. 161 |
| Comparative Study of Non-Work Activities in Economic Growth | p. 167 |
| Summary and Conclusions | p. 170 |
| Notes | p. 171 |
| References | p. 172 |
| Directions for the Study of Knowledge Use in Non-Work Activities | p. 175 |
| Introduction | p. 175 |
| Summary of the Exposition | p. 175 |
| Investigating the Acquisition and Use of Knowledge in Non-Work Activities: Overview of an Agenda | p. 178 |
| Conceptualization and Measurement of Stocks of Knowledge in Non-Work Activities | p. 179 |
| The Construct of the Valuing of Knowledge and Knowledge Use in Non-Work Activities | p. 183 |
| Constructing Identity in Non-Work Activities: Integrating Environments and Agency | p. 188 |
| Institutional Environments of Non-Work Activities | p. 194 |
| Extending the Activity Framework | p. 198 |
| Conclusions | p. 200 |
| Notes | p. 203 |
| References | p. 205 |
| Story Sample for Content Analyses of the Value Constructs | p. 209 |
| Index | p. 235 |
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