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Living it up: our love affair with luxury

Choice Reviews OnlinePublished 1 October 2002
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Abstract

1. Over the Top: Americans in the Lap of Luxury2. The Social Construction of Luxury: A Taxonomy of Taste3. Let's Go Shopping: The Streets of Material Dreams4. Where Opuluxe Is Made and Who Makes It: LVMH and Cond Nast5. How Luxury Becomes Necessity: The Work of Advertising6. From Shirts to Tulips: A Musing on Luxury7. Viva Las Vegas! A Strip of Luxury8. Still Learning From Las Vegas: How Luxury Is Turning ReligiousConclusion A (Mild) Defense of Luxury

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Social SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and FinanceBusiness, Management and Accounting