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Social Sciences Cover 1 Title Page 4 Copyright 5 CONTENTS 6 Preface 8 Acknowledgments 17 Introduction to 1996 edition 21 Part I: Goods as an information system 30 1. Why people want goods 32 2. Why they save 40 3. The uses of goods 65 4. Exclusion, intrusion 77 5. The technology of consumption 96 6. Consumption periodicities 111 Part II: Implications for social policy 122 7. Separate economic spheres in ethnography 124 8. International comparisons 136 9. Consumption classes 160 10. Control of value 176 Notes 184 Index 194
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