Luxury fever weighing the cost of excess
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Princeton, N.J.
Princeton University Press
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Money well spent?
- The luxury spending boom
- Why now?
- The price of luxury
- Does money buy happiness?
- Gains that endure
- Our forgotten future
- Excellent, relatively speaking
- Why context and position are so important
- Smart for one, dumb for all
- Understanding conspicuous consumption
- Self help?
- Other failed remedies
- Luxury without apology
- Equity versus efficiency: the great trade-off?
- We can't afford it?
- Cash on the table.