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| Author: | Bianchi, M. |
| Title: | Collecting as a paradigm of consumption |
| Journal: | Journal of Cultural Economics
1997 : VOL. 21:4, p. 275-289 |
| Index terms: | CONSUMPTION CULTURE ECONOMICS |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Why should the activity of collecting hold any interest for the economist? Collecting seems to reside only in the pores of consumer behavior, beyond the rational and the useful, and so often prone to the passion of unrestraint and excess. Yet collecting reveals two important aspects of the act of choosing goods. The first is that goods are not single-purpose or single-end units, but complexes of multiple features. The second is that, though these features are internally ordered, new links and connections can be established and discovered among them. |
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