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

Slee, Tom

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ISBN 10: 189707106X ISBN 13: 9781897071069

Verlag: Between the Lines, 2006

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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.

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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
• ISBN 10: 189707106X
• ISBN 13: 9781897071069
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 254