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Cheap : the high cost of discount culture

text Cheap : the high cost of discount culture

Summary
An Atlantic correspondent uncovers the true cost--in economic, political, and psychic terms--of our penchant for making and buying things as cheaply as possible, providing evidence that "buying cheap" has resulted in a host of socioeconomic ills t... Read more
Contents

Discount nation -- The founding fathers -- Winner take nothing -- The outlet gambit -- Markdown madness -- Death of a craftsman -- Discounting and its discontents -- Cheap eats -- The double-headed dragon -- The perfect price.

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Description
xix, 296 p. ; 25 cm.
Publisher
Penguin Press 2009

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Fife Lake Public Library 381.14 SHE in Adult Reshelving
Woodmere (Main Branch) 381.149 SHE in Adult Non-fiction Available

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