Positional

Gambit is an opening maneuver in which a pawn is usually offered to gain positional advantage, to break the opponent's central structure or to accelerate the development of pieces.

The mattress platform on Davey’s bed fell unexpectedly, “trapping her neck against the upper surface of the side panel of the bed’s base,” Chipperfield explained. “Unable to free herself, she died of positional asphyxia. One of the two gas-lift pistons was defective.”

Of course, this ex post problem may have a negative feedback on the ex ante desirability of having market transactions for positional goods.

Since economics is about scarcity, its study must be based on positional conflict, as indicated by the behaviour of the nouveau riche, or of poor people, who proudly demonstrate their latest smartphones or plasma TV sets.

Regarding saving and consumption, nonpositional and positional consumption are distinguished.

Max Weber was also aware of positional considerations when he defined social status as "an effective claim to social esteem in terms of positive or negative privileges" (Weber, 1922: 305).