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Koutsobinas, Theodore.: The political economy of status: Superstars, markets and culture change. 264pp. Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, 2014. Hardback, \({\pounds }\)80.

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  1. The American trade balance—imports over exports—significantly worsened since the early 1990s. In 1996 the trade deficit was US$ 1006 per household, whereas in 2000 it amounted to US$ 3787 and in 2007 it reached US$ 6194 per household (Jagannathan et al. 2009).

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Sarracino, F. Koutsobinas, Theodore.: The political economy of status: Superstars, markets and culture change. 264pp. Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, 2014. Hardback, \({\pounds }\)80.. J Econ 124, 207–211 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00712-018-0595-3

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