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The Vice of Luxury

Economic Excess in a Consumer Age

  • Paperback
  • 336 pages
  • Publisher: Georgetown University Press
  • 15 x 22.7 x 2.3 cm

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Luxury. The word alone conjures up visions of visions of attractive, desirable lifestyle choices, yet it also faces criticism as a moral vice harmful to both the self and society. Engaging with ideas from business, marketing, and economics, The Vice of Luxury takes on the challenging task of naming how much is too much in today's consumer-oriented society. David Cloutier's critique goes to the heart of a fundamental contradiction. Though overconsumption and materialism make us uneasy, they also seem inevitable in advanced economies. Current studies of economic ethics focus on the structural problems of poverty, of international trade, of workers' rights -- but rarely, if ever, do such studies speak directly to the excesses of the wealthy, including the middle classes of advanced economies. Cloutier proposes a new approach to economic ethics that focuses attention on our everyday economic choices. He shows why luxury is a problem, explains how to identify what counts as the vice of luxury today, and develops an ethic of consumption that is grounded in Christian moral convictions.
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  • Author

    David Cloutier

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Georgetown University Press

  • Published

    December 2015

  • Weight

    454g

  • Page Count

    336

  • Dimensions

    15 x 22.7 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781626162563

  • ISBN-10

    1626162565

  • Eden Code

    4336429

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