A Research On The Western Thoughts Of Consumer Economy And Transmutation Of Consumption Culture Notions

Consumption of the substance or meaning is not just the terminal of social and economical behavior, but also links to factors such as the distribution of material product, political and economic trend, individual and group selection widely, which constitute consistence and evolution of the society and civilization as an integral. The notions of consumption culture have transferred from the glittery pieces of thoughts in economic classics to a field of hot political and economical discussions nowadays.This paper tries to look back on the analysis and the discourse on the consumption behavior, the notions of consumption and social context in main economists'works of traditional society period, pre-modern period, modern period and post-modern period and points that from time to time the evolution and change of western consumption notion responses the vicissitudes of consumption acknowledge and discourse. From the slavery society in the west consumption issues had been thoroughly focused on by researchers on economy, which forms a map of the evolution of the consumption notions in their works and indirect and moving speeches. Since modern economics appeared their consumption views began to utilize the permeating of the economic policy, the spread of the economics text and the repeat of the specific consumption behavior and kept leaving complex and deep impact on the consumption notion of the mass.