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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Conspicuous consumption
		Conspicuous consumption is a term introduced by the American economist Thorstein Veblen, in The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899).
		Conspicuous consumption is a symptom observed in individuals in any society where over-consumption has become a social norm or expectation.
		In marketing-terminology the term conspicuous consumption refers to the consumption of goods for the sake of displaying wealth, power, or prestige to others.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Conspicuous_consumption (567 words)

	ipedia.com: Conspicuous consumption Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Conspicuous consumption or pathological purchasing is a symptom observed in individuals in any society where o...
		Pathological consumption is widely acknowledged to reach extreme proportions in capitalist societies in late December.
		Some argue that this is a festival of drunkenness and overt hedonism intended to set the tone of a new Roman calendar year, the Saturnalia once celebrated at the winter solstice, and having little or nothing to do with the Christian religion.
	www.ipedia.com /conspicuous_consumption.html (1169 words)

	Visit Japan Campaign \| Kaori Yamada
		It found favor with the gentry, rich merchants and others with the time, the inclination and especially the space, to pursue the demanding art.
		Maintaining a bonsai garden was, and is, a form of conspicuous consumption.
		The original Bonsai Village was in the Hongo area of Tokyo, but the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923 and the fires that devastated the city afterward, as well as the growing urbanization of the area, convinced the community that it was time to transplant themselves out of the city.
	www.japanwelcomesyou.com /cssweb/display.cfm?storyID=1297 (893 words)

	Integrity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Bakker was later convicted of fraud, and served five years in prison.
		Bakker and his wife, who professed Christian love and family values on their popular TV show, took 1980’s greed and conspicuous consumption to new extremes.
		PTL once spent $100,00 to have the Bakker’s clothes flown across the country.
	www.sportmanager.com /integrity.htm (3822 words)

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