The Price of Prestige
34 chapter two constant instability in the selection of luxury goods. They also drive cycles of exaggeration and guide patterns ...
status symbols and luxury goods 35 and terrains and too vulnerable for combat.^1 Yet the Germans did not stop there. Their most ...
36 chapter two for a good and enduring status symbol in international relations, starting with a broader discussion in the fourt ...
status symbols and luxury goods 37 ing the stratification of the international system more easily. This process requires at leas ...
38 chapter two could be relatively confident that signals sent through the manipulation of this indicator would be accurately in ...
status symbols and luxury goods 39 watchtower construction in Italy during the fourteenth and fifteenth centu ries can illustra ...
40 chapter two geographic diffusion took some time. Thus, the watchtower fashion ar rived in London and Toulouse at the time wh ...
status symbols and luxury goods 41 on ornamental clothing (Benhamou 1989 , 35 n 17 ). Since out of control con spicuous consu ...
42 chapter two bomb making mania. Similarly, international organizations such as the United Nations and the International Monet ...
status symbols and luxury goods 43 constant inferiority these two powers experienced when comparing them selves to other leadin ...
44 chapter two rather than global comparison, construct alternative hierarchies based on specific capabilities, or, as in the ca ...
status symbols and luxury goods 45 Symbols of class membership usually do not refer to one source of sta tus but to a configura ...
46 chapter two does not allow for any categorical significance that goes beyond the direct implications of the distribution of p ...
status symbols and luxury goods 47 defense system such as the Aegis, even though the latter is more exclusive and to a large ext ...
48 chapter two reflect and enable these changes. Thus, the great European powers could find themselves fighting over the acquisi ...
status symbols and luxury goods 49 indicator. The Cuban regime invested a lot of effort and resources in pre senting Cuba as a ...
50 chapter two of such “second image reversed.” A symbol that was aimed at repelling ex ternal threats was adopted as a way of ...
status symbols and luxury goods 51 These constant processes of emulation and differentiation stand at the heart of the “trickle ...
52 chapter two as in Gatsby’s example, because of intrinsic restrictions, the trade offs im posed by such patterns of consumpt ...
status symbols and luxury goods 53 visible. Only one country can own the largest navy in the world; only one country can be the ...
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