Conspicuous Consumption and Darwin's Critical Sexual Selection Dynamic That Thorstein Veblen Missed
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Keywords
Darwin; sexual selection; status; inequality; evolution;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- B15 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary
- B52 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary; Modern Monetary Theory;
- D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
- P47 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Other Economic Systems - - - Performance and Prospects
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HME-2016-05-21 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
- NEP-HPE-2016-05-21 (History & Philosophy of Economics)
- NEP-PKE-2016-05-21 (Post Keynesian Economics)
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