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sumptuary (en)

(adjective) relating to personal expenditures and especially to prevent extravagance and luxury / (adjective) designed to regulate extravagant expenditures or habits especially on moral or religious grounds / sumptuary law = law restricting consumption (notable during middle ages)

Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts
by Max Haiven

Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts
by Max Haiven

Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts
by Max Haiven


the passing of trade and sumptuary laws that would cause commodities that were common one day to become scarce the next and vice versa

—p.97 Money as a medium of vengeance: Colonial accumulation and proletarian practices (85) by Max Haiven
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