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No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart

By Tom Slee

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No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart

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We live in a culture of choice. But, in an age of corporate dominance, our freedom to choose has taken on new meaning. Upset with your local big box store? Object to unfair hiring practices at your neighbourhood fast food restaurant? Want to protest the opening of that new multinational coffeeshop? Vote with your feet! What if it's not that simple? In "No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart," Tom Slee unpacks the implications of our fervent belief in the power of choice. Pointing out that individual choice has become the lynchpin of a neoconservative corporate ideology he calls MarketThink, he urges us to re-examine our assumptions . Slee makes use of game theory to argue that individual choice is not inherently bad. Nor is it the societal fix-all that our corporations and governments claim it is. A spirited treatise, this book will make you think about choice in a whole new way.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
240
Release Date:
2006-07-30
Publication Date:
2006-05-15
Publisher:
Between the Lines(CA)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
189707106X
ISBN13:
9781897071069
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
418 g
Height:
153 cm
Width:
228 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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