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The Vice of Luxury - Economic Excess in a Consumer Age (Paperback)
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The Vice of Luxury - Economic Excess in a Consumer Age (Paperback)
Series: Moral Traditions series
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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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