Mimetic Dominance and the Economics of Exclusion: Private Goods in Public Contexts
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Keywords
Mimetic preferences; Objects of desire; Exclusion; Trade; Competition; Inequality;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D4 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design
- D9 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics
- P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State
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