Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]
… 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 manner. His essay ‘Of Refinement in the Arts’ (1752) distinguishes between an …
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