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

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  • Arnaud Diemer

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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. The different positions of philosophers (Mandeville, Condillac, Montesquieu, Hume, Rousseau) and economists (Melon, Quesnay, Smith, Say) seem to reflect more a change in the systems of values (the interest and the useful versus the moral) than a real challenge of luxury consumption. JEL Codes: A11, A13, B11, B12, B30

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  • Arnaud Diemer, 2013. "Quand le luxe devient une question économique : retour sur la querelle du luxe du 18e siècle," Innovations, De Boeck Université, vol. 0(2), pages 9-27.
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    1. Jean-Daniel Boyer, 2023. "Débattre mais pas trop. À propos de « l’utilité des discussions économiques » (et de leur inutilité) pour changer l’homme et la société," Working Papers 10-23, Association Française de Cliométrie (AFC).

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    Keywords

    Hume; Mandeville; Melon; luxury; moral; utility;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • A11 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Role of Economics; Role of Economists
    • A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
    • B11 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - Preclassical (Ancient, Medieval, Mercantilist, Physiocratic)
    • B12 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - Classical (includes Adam Smith)
    • B30 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought: Individuals - - - General

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