Norms, Status, and Individualist Goods

Adel S Z Abadeer

Chapter Chapter 8 in Norms and Gender Discrimination in the Arab World, 2015, pp 127-148 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Status or positional goods are goods that confer utility to someone (a certain group) only at the expense of someone else (or another group) who consumes less of the status good. Hirsch (1976) distinguishes between normal goods, which confer direct utility (yielding a positive sum game in free market transactions, where everyone can gain), and positional goods, which confer utility to winners only at the expense of losers, a zero- or a negative-sum game. The distribution of status goods is a zero-sum-game in the case of no transaction costs or a negative-sum-game in the case of transaction costs. Normal goods are reproducible, but positional or status goods are not (Cooper et al. 2001: 644).

Keywords: Saudi Arabia; Public Sphere; Individualist Good; Arab Country; Gender Discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137395283_8

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