The Public as Thermostat: Dynamics of Preferences for Spending Wlezien, Christopher consumer expenditures consumers ICPSR.XVIII The data sets thermo1.dat and thermo2.dat contain the data necessary to replicate the analyses reported in an article written by Christopher Wlezien, entitled "The Public as Thermostat: Dynamics of Preferences for Spending." The article was published in the American Journal of Political Science, vol. 39 (1995). 1996-01-04 1104 10.3886/ICPSR01104.v1 United States ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/).