Article: Is conspicuous consumption really news?

Article: Colin Campbell on Thorstein Veblen on conspicuous ...
Journal of Economic Issues;  March 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... literature mentions Veblen on conspicuous consumption at least in passing). (1 ... claims that Veblen's theory of conspicuous consumption is so flawed that it is not an ... rather different conceptions of conspicuous consumption which can be discerned in the ...

Article: Conspicuous Consumption
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences;      700+ words ...Conspicuous Consumption The American economist Thorstein ... Veblen first introduced the term conspicuous consumption in his work The Theory of the ... enjoyed by the laboring class. Conspicuous consumption is the vehicle by which members ...

Article: Veblen, Bourdieu, and Conspicuous Consumption.
Journal of Economic Issues;  March 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... According to Veblen's theory of conspicuous consumption, individuals emulate the consumption ... et al. 1988), the theory of conspicuous consumption has in recent years also been ... follows from this position that conspicuous consumption lacks generality as a theory of ...

Article: Of Diamonds and Desires: Understanding Conspicuous ...
Academy of Marketing Science Review;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... expenditures and coined the term conspicuous consumption to describe the behavior; this ... in studying the phenomenon of conspicuous consumption can be adequately justified by ... thoughts, and assessment of the conspicuous consumption construct cannot be an exception ...

Article: A `Conspicuous Consumption Tax'
The Washington Post;  November 16, 1987 ;     453 words ... ... like better is a "conspicuous consumption tax." Individuals ... egos by engaging in conspicuous consumption by purchasing excessively ... a 100 percent conspicuous consumption tax on them upon ...

Article: Conspicuous Consumption.(Director's Viewpoint)
Aircraft Maintenance Technology;  January 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Conspicuous Consumption Nick Sergi, Director of ... of business aircraft -- conspicuous consumption. All this unfavorable publicity ... still the perception of conspicuous consumption. As result many operators ...

Article: Blatant benevolence and conspicuous consumption; ...
The Economist (US);  August 4, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... colleagues look into two activities--conspicuous consumption and altruism towards strangers ... the selfishness spectrum from conspicuous consumption. Yet they have something in common ... evolution. Viewed this way, both conspicuous consumption and what the researchers call ...