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this is just empirical support for the rick harbaugh paper on counter-signaling, which i'm sure you know - which provides a theory that addresses question you ask at end of post - ie even if different people signal in different ways, can still be sustained (and be informative) in equilibrium

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So, that would imply the ultimate high-class clothing brand is Muji. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Muji's first US outpost was a shop inside the Museum of Modern Art. Hmm.... (cf. http://tmagazine.blogs.nyti...

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