Goods which are in limited supply and which become more sought after and relatively more expensive as material prosperity increases.
〔经济〕紧俏商品
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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.