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Joel M. Podolny

Joel M. Podolny, author of Status Signals: A Sociological Study of Market Competition, is Vice President and Dean of Apple University.

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Where lies the seeming unexplained residual value people ascribe to luxury goods above and beyond their use value? Paul Bloom’s answer is history. In my view, Bloom adds two letters too many...
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