Not irrational but habitual: The importance of “behavioural lock-in” in energy consumption
Ecological EconomicsPublished 13 January 2010
Kevin Maréchal
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The analysis of the role played by habits suggests that individuals do not consider the need to change existing habits as an obstacle even though this is contradicted implicitly in the answers they provided to open questions.
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