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/srd1336444 https://susi.usi.ch/global/documents/336444 https://susi.usi.ch/documents/336444/files/3009073_636683784505008732.pdf eng Quaderni del Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistica info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/ark/12658/srd1336444 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined Positional good info:eu-repo/classification/udc/33 Positional goods and legal orderings http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_8042