Archive - Archive for the month of September, 2007

Expects revisited

Monday, 24 September, 2007

Chapter 3 of my next book, Consommation et luxe (Consumption and luxury), is devoted to the study of expects (this a contraction of expectancies or expectations, a catchy term I have coined to best translate the French notion of «attentes». Here is an excerpt. The theory of the needs, still used today as the basis […]

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Consumption and luxury

Monday, 10 September, 2007

Today, I start publishing my blog anew with the following three paragraphs drawn from a first version of Consommation et luxe (Consumption and luxury), my next book, to be published this fall (in French only for the time being). « These Romans are crazy! » Many remember Obelix’s trademark phrase in the famed adventures of […]

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