Trigg, Andrew B.; Bertie, Andrew J.; Himmelweit, Susan F. - 2008
The contribution to the social theory of consumption of the late Pierre Bourdieu has been widely recognized, but not … fully absorbed by the economics discipline. To address this lacuna, an agent-based model of Bourdieu's social theory is … developed by extending Axelrod's cultural diffusion model. Bourdieu's theory is decomposed into two components: a capital effect …