No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart: The Surprising Deceptions of Individual Choice - Softcover

Slee, Tom

 
9781897071069: No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart: The Surprising Deceptions of Individual Choice
Softcover
ISBN 10: 189707106X ISBN 13: 9781897071069
Verlag: Between the Lines, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

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? InNo 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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tom Slee is a writer, researcher, activist, and software professional. He lives in Waterloo, Ontario.

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Verlag
Between the Lines
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
189707106X
ISBN 13 
9781897071069
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
254
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