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Shell, Ellen Ruppel
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Fiction
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Penguin Group (USA), Inc.
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English
β 263 KB
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Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture
β Scribed by Shell, Ellen Ruppel
- Book ID
- 107907992
- Publisher
- Penguin Group US
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 228 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781101135471
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
A myth-shattering investigation of the true cost of America's passion for finding a better bargain
From the shuttered factories of the Rust Belt to the strip malls of the Sun Belt-and almost everywhere in between-America has been transformed by its relentless fixation on low price. This pervasive yet little- examined obsession with bargains is arguably the most powerful and devastating market force of our time, having fueled an excess of consumerism that blights our landscapes, escalates personal debt, lowers our standard of living, and even skews of our concept of time.
Spotlighting the peculiar forces that drove Americans away from quality, durability, and craftsmanship and towards quantity, quantity, and more quantity, Ellen Ruppel Shell traces the rise of the bargain through our current big-box profusion to expose the astronomically high cost of cheap.
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