(Redirected from ECPR) The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) is an independent scholarly association that supports and encourages the training, research and cross-national cooperation of many thousands of academics and graduate students specialising in political science and all its sub-disciplines.
Consumption, in economics, the use of goods and services by households. Consumption is distinct from consumption expenditure, which is the purchase of goods and services for use by households.
Consumer spending, referred to interchangeably in this article as âconsumer demandâ or âpersonal consumption expendituresâ (PCE), measures the purchase of goods and services by households and nonprofit institutions serving households.