No One Makes You Shop At WalmartBetween the Lines, 2006 M05 15 - 256 pages 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 examines 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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... What Is It Good For? Chapters 8Join orGet Run Over Choosing aNightclub in Whimsley ASelection ofHerd Choices Choosing Our Schools Choosing Our Technologies Fooled by Randomness Chapter 9 The Devil You Know Jack Goes to the Movies ...
... what wewant. Finally, lettheinvisible handof thefreemarket provide efficiency, innovation, responsiveness, and growth. What's more, individualchoiceappears to beonthe side of the powerless. No one,after all,makes youeat at McDonald's ...
... What has gone wrong? Why isit thatwith more choices than any society in history, wedo notgetwhat we want? This book is an attempt to answer these questions. A. Short. Modern. History. of. Choice. Over the last halfcentury, theideaof ...
... What becameknownas theChicago school had beenbusy attacking the thendominant Keynesianideas that government spending couldbe used tocarryeconomies through recessions and evenpull themout of depressions (U.S. presidentRichard Nixon ...
... what they are trying to sell,is the ultimate source ofpower in afreeenterprise society. The economy isagreat democracy in whichwecast our votes not once every few years, but eachand everytimewe make a purchase. Inthe face of our choices ...
Contents
Arms Races and Red Queens | |
Chapters 5Cooperation andIts Limits | |
Chapter6 Divide and Conquer | |
Choosing Our Technologies | |
The Devil You Know | |
Choosing Our Culture | |
ABasket ofLemons | |
Chapter10 Free toChoose but Exploited | |
Chapter 11Beyond Whimsley | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
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