The concept of “new luxury” has challenged the conventional marketing of luxury goods as
prestigious, leading to greater expansion of mass luxury meaning. This has become more …

Thorstein Veblen, a founder of original or old institutional economics, combined social and
evolutionary thought in his institutionalist approach to dealing with psychological, social, and …

The abundance of goods in the modern world has a tendency to prejudice interpretation of
their value, but the way people value their goods is complex, relative and changeable …

Órgão sob o qual se pensaram e se executaram as principais políticas públicas levadas a
cabo no Brasil independente, o Ministério da Fazenda auferiu nova estatura com a …

Thorstein Veblen was a founding father of the original institutional economics. Veblen's first
book, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), introduced to economists an interdisciplinary …

The goal of this study is to complement Thorstein Veblen's conspicuous consumer approach
to economics with Tibor Scitovsky's neuropsychological analysis. This is undertaken by …

Institutional Economics relies on a practical understanding of decision making. Institutions,
habits, and cumulative causation introduce not only information, but also how to make …

Scientific research in general and economics research in particular is a social act. More
specifically, schools of economic thought as well as associations, research groups and …

A teoria do consumo conspícuo é um elemento da construção teórica Vebleniana elaborada
originalmente em seu primeiro livro A Teoria da Classe Ociosa. O termo é entendido como o …

Introduction: Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class introduced the concepts of
conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure. These concepts are valid today, and …