Positional Goods and Social Welfare

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  • Author : Luca Fiorito
  • Release Date : 2018
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  • Pages : 9
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  • File Size : 85,85 MB
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Book Description: This paper deals with the analysis on adventitious utility--that contains many aspects that are connected to the contemporary debate on positional goods--of the early twentieth century American economist, largely forgotten today, George Pendleton Watkins. According to the author, adventitious utility emerges from a process of social exclusion which can create negative externalities, in the sense that positive consumption of one individual implies negative consumption by another individual. Interestingly, a similar notion of positional competition as a zero-sum game has gained some consensus among contemporary authors (Pagano 1999; Hopkins and Kornienko 2004). In addition, for Watkins striving for adventitious utility does undermine social welfare. Not only it worsens both individual and social well-being by generating social waste, but it also disrupts the integrity of the social fabric. In discussing possible remedies, Watkins pointed out the necessity of a more egalitarian distribution of income and postulated a dichotomy between goods and services possessing adventitious utility and those possessing what he defined as multiple utility. In the latter group Watkins included public goods as well as those dimensions in human consumption that depend on social interaction and can be enjoyed only if shared in community.

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Positional Goods and Social Welfare

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This paper deals with the analysis on adventitious utility--that contains many aspects that are connected to the contemporary debate on positional goods--of the