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  • Liquid Lifestyles and Business Cycles: An Evolutionary Theory of Fashion

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    Author(s)
    Chai, Andreas
    Earl, Peter
    Potts, Jason
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    Chai, Andreas
    Year published
    2005
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    This paper revisits the welfare economics of fashion from the standpoint of evolutionary economics. Whilst accepting that fashion-focused consumption may have an element of status-seeking behaviour about it, which may be of questionable value in welfare terms, the paper emphasizes that fashion cycles can help enhance well-being via trickle-down effects as durable fashion goods circulate in second-hand markets. In an uncertain and changing world, choice is an experimental activity whether on is seeking to try novel products or make a novel impression in competing for status. Boundedly rational consumers will sometimes make ...
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    This paper revisits the welfare economics of fashion from the standpoint of evolutionary economics. Whilst accepting that fashion-focused consumption may have an element of status-seeking behaviour about it, which may be of questionable value in welfare terms, the paper emphasizes that fashion cycles can help enhance well-being via trickle-down effects as durable fashion goods circulate in second-hand markets. In an uncertain and changing world, choice is an experimental activity whether on is seeking to try novel products or make a novel impression in competing for status. Boundedly rational consumers will sometimes make mistakes but the finite nature of fashions means that both those who made socially approved choices and those who made mistakes are given a fresh chance to prove their status and decision-making capabilities each time a new fashion cycle starts.
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    Journal Title
    Advances in Austrian Economics
    Volume
    8
    Copyright Statement
    © 2005 Emerald. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Microeconomic Theory
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/36264
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