The Substance of Style is fundamentally a defense of subjective value: consumers value things for psychologically understandable reasons that cannot be quantified on a universal scale because value is subjective.

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Virginia Postrel

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consumers in the marketplace value things for reasons we can understand psychologically, but we can't necessarily uh quantify them on a universal scale because it's subjective.

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Virginia Postrel on Style 11/27/2006EconTalk
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