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Definition of positional goods in English: positional goodsplural noun Economics Goods which are in limited supply and which become more sought after and relatively more expensive as material prosperity increases. Example sentencesExamples - And that's why each of these groups has its own luxury markers - positional goods, in marketing jargon - to be bought, not made.
- Many of us fail to recognize how much of our consumption is devoted to these positional goods.
- In the male sphere of Georgian life, being clever helps you attain positional goods; in the female, it helps you marry well.
- Thus the spending by the wealthy on many positional goods acts as a curious sort of natural taxation.
- And so, as more and more people get rich, the positional goods they want keep moving just beyond their grasp.
- In a booming economy characterized by net immigration rather than net emigration, where the demands of an expanding middle class are outstripping supply, the acquisition of positional goods becomes ever more difficult.
- However, there is a great deal of mobility in Highbury society, a mobility expressed largely through the circulation of young women, and here escalation is less a matter of positional goods then of cultural capital.
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