Sixteen Kinds of Potatoes. Yesterday I started us on a potato journey with a post about how to select the right kind of potato. Today I'm going to show you the loot I picked up from the farmers' market last week: sixteen varieties of potatoes. Some are common varieties and available from farmers in many potato-growing regions. Others are rare varieties. Take it as a loose guide, and a colorful tour of the spuds of the NYC area.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Consumerism is a social and economic order that encourages the purchase of goods and services in ever-greater amounts. Criticisms of consumption are already present in the works of Thorstein Veblen.
As a field of study, consumer behaviour is an applied social science. Consumer behaviour analysis is the use of behaviour principles, usually gained experimentally, to interpret human economic consumption. As a discipline, consumer behaviour stands at the intersection of economic psychology and marketing science.