授人以“鱼”还是授人以“渔”?——消费资本与消费者生产理论研究

“Fishes” or ”Fishing Skills”?——A Theoretical Study of Consumption Capital and Consumer Production

在知识经济与体验经济的环境下,将消费者的消费视为生产过程更有利于理解消费者的消费行为。本文主要从两个方面完善了现有的消费者生产理论:首先提出了消费者积累消费资本的动态最优路径,理论模型显示,如果消费者预期到消费资本的积累有利于未来消费,那么即便当前产品价格较高,那么进行选择也是有利的;其次研究了稳态最优消费资本积累水平的相关特点,结论是当消费资本更新过快时,消费者对于相关资本的积累会相应降低。

Under the circumstances of knowledge and experiential economies, it would be more helpful to view the consumption as a consumer production process, where inputs are market goods and consumers＇ own time and other skills. This research completes the existing consumer production theory mainly in two ways. Firstly, this research addressed the optimal consumption capital accumulation path and the optimal level of equilibrium consumption capital level. Secondly, this research quantitatively described how the consumption capital level affects the consumption behavior.