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

Author:   Tom Slee
Publisher:   Between the Lines
ISBN:  

9781897071069


Pages:   254
Publication Date:   17 August 2006
Format:   Paperback
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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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Author:   Tom Slee
Publisher:   Between the Lines
Imprint:   Between the Lines
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.417kg
ISBN:  

9781897071069


ISBN 10:   189707106
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   17 August 2006
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Tom Slee is a writer, researcher, activist, and software professional. He lives in Waterloo, Ontario.

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