Open image in new window Fig. 22 Annual energy consumption of different houses: a amount of energy consumption (kWh/m2), b percentage distribution of different energy consumption, and c to grid line electricity (kWh).
In the figure, the vertical axis indicates an amount of energy consumption by each energy source, and the horizontal axis indicates an annual period.
In the case of a short-lived investment, people can ask whether "they" would prefer a certain amount of consumption now or a larger amount of consumption at some future date.
Due to the limitation of our dataset, this study can use the change of EFX balance to reflect a total amount of consumption by consumers even though we do not have a dataset for a total amount of purchase.
However, results of further analysis reveal that, under the constraining condition that economic development is driven by a certain amount of consumption, in terms of all the elements that increase GDP, it is actually the relative shrinking of investment and export that has caused the proportion of consumption to remain comparatively larger.
By providing this agent with an additional small amount of consumption the social welfare increases.
At each point in time, (t =1,2,ldots, T); the consumer has to make a decision on the amount of consumption and saving.
And B lends this amount of consumption to A, so that A can consume a lot.
The simplest way of generating intergenerational transmission of tastes is through the introduction of aspirations, that is, by assuming that an individual's utility depends on a comparison between his current amount of consumption and that of his parents.
SQ provides a brief, quantified index of amount of consumption, that is, the number of cigarettes smoked per day.
For any economic unit, whether a firm or an individual, income may be measured by that hypothetical amount of consumption that would leave capital intact.
