The third and longest chapter of Sidney Mintz's  Sweetness and Power  analyzes the changes in this activity among the working class in the Victorian United Kingdom.
Colin Campbell argued that the "spirit" of this activity originates from 19th-century Romanticism. Increases in this activity are leading to a global crisis according to a book about its "shadows" by Peter Dauvergne  (doh-vern) . Racial disparities in this practice were explained economically in a study by Charles, Hurst, and Roussanov. The third and longest chapter of Sidney Mintz's  Sweetness and Power  analyzes the changes in this activity among the working class in the Victorian United Kingdom. Daniel Miller applied his work from the Global Denim Project to a study of this practice "and its consequences." In economics, a function explaining this activity is the subject of the life-cycle and permanent income hypotheses. Gambling is analyzed as a form of this practice in "The Belief in Luck," a chapter of a book that attributes it to "pecuniary emulation." For 10 points, name this practice of capitalist societies whose "conspicuous" variant was described by Thorstein Veblen.
Colin Campbell argued that the "spirit" of this activity originates from 19th-century Romanticism.
consumption  [or conspicuous  consumption ; or  consumerism ; or word forms]