Buckle up, everyone; this post is going to be a long one. Today, I wanted to discuss the matter of conspicuous consumption: the art of spending relatively large sums of money on luxury goods. When you ...

Today, I wanted to discuss the matter of conspicuous consumption: the art of spending relatively large sums of money on luxury goods. When you see people spending close to $600 on a single button-up ...

It’s sometimes said that people buy products they don’t really need, with money they don’t really have, to impress people they don’t really like. This behaviour is known as conspicuous consumption ...

Lundy, Taylor, Narun Raman, Scott Duke Kominers, and Kevin Leyton-Brown. "NFTs as a Data-Rich Test Bed: Conspicuous Consumption and its Determinants." Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference (2025): ...

Food and fashion seem an unlikely pairing. While encouraging the consumer consumption of luxury goods, high fashion has long glorified thinness, with eating deemed almost taboo. In recent years, ...

When economist Thorstein Veblen coined the term “conspicuous consumption” in 1899, he was describing a new kind of social display: one where people bought goods not out of need but as “trophies of ...

Toyota’s bold new electric cars look nothing like your friendly Prius Toyota's new line of electric cars aren't here to be your kombucha-drinking friend with a trust fund. They're here to be your ...