Quand le luxe devient une question économique: retour sur la querelle du luxe du 18e siècle

Arnaud Diemer
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Arnaud Diemer: TRIANGLE - Triangle : action, discours, pensée politique et économique - ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - IEP Lyon - Sciences Po Lyon - Institut d'études politiques de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Condemnation or glorification of luxury is a classic and recurrent question in the history of political ideas. Today, it continues to generate a set of conflicting emotions. In order to understand this debate, we chose to immerse ourselves in the history of economic thought, and, more specifically, in the quarrel of luxury that occurred during the Enlightenment. If luxury is immoral, it is not necessarily obnoxious, it participates in the circulation of wealth, maintains a certain industry and stimulates trade. (...)

Keywords: luxury; moral; utility; Hume; Mandeville; Melon; luxe; morale; utile (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Published in Innovations - Revue d’économie et de management de l'innovation, 2013, 41, pp.9-27. ⟨10.3917/inno.041.0009⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/inno.041.0009

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