Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]
… in self-interest, pride, vanity, and luxury, he suggests, provides employment and aids trade. Thus, luxury, the ‘private vice’ is also a ‘publick benefit’. 6 Hume , too, defends luxury and links it to commerce, albeit in a less provocative … (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977), p. 23-38. 5 . Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits, 2nd ed. (London, 1723), p. 1. 6 . Christopher J. Berry, The Idea of Luxury: A conceptual and …
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