positional goods
6 episodes mention this concept
NewEconomicThinkingJan 11, 2023The Rat Race, Conspicuous Consumption, and Working Hours: A US-Germany Comparison of Inequality and Welfare States
EconomicsTrickle-down consumptionExpenditure cascadesPositional goodsNon-positional goods- NewEconomicThinkingNov 3, 2021
Creating the Financial Conditions for a Green New Deal: A Critique of Capitalism and a Vision for a Steady-State Economy
EconomicsGreen New DealMacroeconomicsEcosystem economicsCredit creation - NewEconomicThinkingOct 23, 2019
A Hereditary Meritocracy: Rebalancing State, Markets, and Community for Sustainable Capitalism
EconomicsHereditary MeritocracyMarket FailureTechnological ChangeEqual Opportunity - NewEconomicThinkingSep 11, 2019
How Sociology Enriches Economic Understanding: Beyond Methodological Individualism
EconomicsMethodological individualismMethodological holismEconomic manCash Nexus - NewEconomicThinkingSep 11, 2019
The Economics of Conspicuous Consumption, Positional Goods, and Artificial Scarcity
EconomicsConspicuous ConsumptionPositional GoodsArtificial ScarcityNatural Scarcity - NewEconomicThinkingDec 12, 2017
The Productivity Puzzle: Mis-measurement, Diffusion, and the Future of Work in the Digital Age
EconomicsProductivity puzzleMis-measurement issues (GDP)Hedonic correctionProduction boundary
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Concepts that appear alongside positional goods across episodes.
- conspicuous consumption
- dehumanization
- postponing consumption
- conventional wisdom
- market dynamics
- global competitiveness (in intangibles)
- financialization
- community resilience
- debt jubilee
- coordinated market economies
- collateral factory
- post-keynesian economics
- capitalism
- income equalization
- commodity theory of money
- natural scarcity
- consumer sovereignty
- trickle-down consumption
- systemic equilibrium
- game theory