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Abstract
‘Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production,” wrote Adam Smith in a celebrated passage from The Wealth of Nations, of 1776. It cannot be said, however, that his view made much of a work oh the discipline of economic history, in which the study of consumption has for long taken a back seat.