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unusual facts about conspicuous consumption


Conspicuous consumption

As an alternative to luxury taxes, the economist Robert H. Frank proposed the application of a progressive consumption tax.


Archangels Don't Play Pinball

The play uses the metaphor of a pinball machine—a new innovation in Italy at the time of and one of which Fo and his wife Franca Rame were fond— to convey mechanisation and conspicuous consumption.


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