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Doing Away with Some Received Ideas

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It is difficult, if not impossible, to open a book or read an article about luxury without happening upon the same commonplaces, made up of a few of the following words:

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Sicard, MC. (2013). Doing Away with Some Received Ideas. In: Luxury, Lies and Marketing. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137264695_1

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