著者

植野 和文

出版者

生活経済学会

雑誌

生活経済学研究 (ISSN:13417347)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.25, pp.81-92, 2007

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This paper aims to show a mechanism that people produce satisfaction by the combination of filling two kinds of desires based on T. Scitovsky's theory. Some hypotheses are first put as; i) Satisfaction consists of comfort and pleasure. ii) When people feel discomfort, they act to relieve it and consequently get comfort. They simultaneously enjoy pleasure generated in the process, iii) When people feel boredom, they act to pursue a certain stimulus and also enjoy pleasure generated in the process. iv) Generation of pleasure induces more desire for pleasure and then drives people to actions to relieve discomfort or to pursue stimulus, often resulted in spoiling their satisfaction produced by filling the two kinds of desires. Results are as follows. People would need a manner to restrain the pursuit of pleasure from running recklessly hard if they wanted to produce enough satisfaction through filling their desires. The manner would be that people skillfully combine a desire for comfort as the goal of an act with a desire for pleasure as the power of practicing the act, then make a comprehensive plan for the process of filling the desires ,and finally carry out the plan. Thus it would be possible that people get comfort and enjoy pleasure simultaneously to maximize the satisfaction. This manner is probably to be useful for the argument on an affluent life.