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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 …
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economic drivers of conventionalization are negotiated into practices at the farm level. Drawing on Bourdieu …
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Symbolic consumption is assessed as an evolution of previously identified conspicuous consumption, after this has undergone a “de-materialization” that is socially, as much as ecologically, driven. As Veblen observed, the shift of wealth towards new forms of physical and financial capital...
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This paper introduces cultural gravity as a new concept for analyzing socio-economic disparities among immigrants. It tests the existence of cultural gravity effects on the geographic concentration and human capital productivity of immigrants. Using cultural distance as a proxy for the local...
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