Pagano, Ugo Vatiero, Massimiliano 2018 People consume because others consume, maintained Veblen in 1899. More recently, theoretical, empirical and experimental articles have argued that people constantly compare themselves to their environments and care greatly about their relative positions. Given that competition for positions may produce social costs, we adopt a Law and Economics approach (i) to suggest legal remedies for positional competition, and (ii) to argue that, because legal relations are characterized in turn by positional characteristics, such legal remedies do not represent ‘free lunches’. application/pdf https://n2t.net/ark:/12658/srd1318754 https://susi.usi.ch/global/documents/318754 https://susi.usi.ch/documents/318754/files/wp1802.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/ark/12658/srd1318754 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined Positional good conspicuous consumption legal ordering legal relations info:eu-repo/classification/udc/34 Positional goods and legal orderings http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_816b