TY  - BOOK
AU  - Taplin,Ian M.
TI  - The Evolution of Luxury
SN  - 9781000680720
AV  - HB841 
U1  - 305.5234 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Milton
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Luxury
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Marketing / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Commerce
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1: Introduction; 2: Luxury in Historical Context; 3: Industrialism, Materialism and the Birth of a Consumer Society; 4: Mass Production, Mass Consumption and New Consumers of Luxury; 5: At Home in the Fields of Luxury: From Artisan Production to Global Brands; 6: Art: From Aesthetics to Investment Grade Collateral; 7: Fine Wine: Creating Luxury in a Bottle; 8: Conclusion: Pilgrims on the Luxury Road; Bibliography; Index
N2  - This book offers a unique analysis of how our definitions of luxury have changed over the ages, and with that the role and actions of both suppliers and buyers of luxury products. It traces the way luxury was seen as avarice and emblematic of morally corrosive behavior in past societies, to being viewed in more virtuous terms as the inevitable outcome of structural changes that legitimize the acquisition and display of wealth. It examines the origins of the shift from criticism to acceptance, and traces these changes to fundamentally different notions of what constitutes the basis for social order. Whereas pre-industrial hierarchies cloaked inequality in various secular and sacred guises to mitigate its presence, capitalism justified and reified inequality as a measure of individual success and initiative through interdependent market behavior. The result of this transformation is that status markers have become aspirational tools as hierarchies became porous and self-identity less ascriptive. Correspondingly, as demand for luxury became legitimized, the supply side underwent dramatic changes. Such changes are explored fully in the sectors of fashion, art and wine. As demand for high priced and scarce goods in each of these sectors has increased, in each case key actors have manipulated markets to purposefully either consolidate their pre-eminence or manufacture the requisite scarcity that affords them canonical status. The demand for and supply of luxury goods is now global; consumers seeking validation and affirmation of their status whilst producers engineer scarcity. Luxury is seen not only as good; it is virtuous, its demand possibly insatiable and extremely profitable
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429329906
UR  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
ER  -