From Imitation to Invention: Creating Commodities in Eighteenth-Century Britain
From Imitation to Invention: Creating Commodities in Eighteenth-Century Britain
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从模仿到发明：十八世纪英国的商品制造
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10.1111/1468-0289.00212
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2002
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M. Berg
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M. Berg
本文介绍了18世纪新商品的历史，作为更广泛的发明和工业化历史的一部分。它侧重于产品创新的制成品，因为这涉及到经济，技术和文化理论。最近的消费者需求理论适用于18世纪商品的发明；特别关注产品创新中的模仿过程。模仿的理论框架可以在模仿传播的进化理论、拟物象的考古理论以及18世纪的品味和美学理论中找到。这一时期的发明家、投影仪、经济政策制定者以及商业和经济作家都专注于英国新产品的发明。他们发明的竞争、模仿背景使英国消费品成为早期亚洲和欧洲奢侈品的独特现代替代品。
This article presents the history of new goods in the eighteenth century as a part of the broader history of invention and industrialization. It focuses on product innovation in manufactured commodities as this engages with economic, technological and cultural theories. Recent theories of consumer demand are applied to the invention of commodities in the eighteenth century; special attention is given to the process of imitation in product innovation. The theoretical framework for imitation can be found in evolutionary theories of mimetic transmission, in archaeological theories of skeuomorphous, and in eighteenth-century theories of taste and aesthetics. Inventors, projectors, economic policy makers, and commercial and economic writers of the period dwelt upon the invention of new British products. The emulative, imitative context for their invention made British consumer goods the distinctive modern alternatives to earlier Asian and European luxuries.