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

Name: No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart The Surprising Deceptions of Individual Choice
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ISBN: 9781897071069

ISBN-10: 189707106X

ISBN-13: 9781897071069

Edition: 2006

Authors: Tom Slee

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As corporations gain more and more power in our political, social, and cultural worlds, our freedom to choose has taken on new meaning. Upset with your local big box store? Vote with your feet! Object to unfair hiring practices at your neighbourhood fast food restaurant? Vote with your feet! Want to protest the opening of that new multinational coffeeshop across the street from the mom-and-pop java joint? Vote with your feet! But what if it's not that simple? But what are the implications of our fervent belief in the power of choice? Today, individual choice is the lynchpin of a neoconservative corporate ideology Slee calls MarketThink. Individual choice, he argues, is not inherently…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Between the Lines
Publication date: 5/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



List of Figures


Acknowledgements



A World of Choice


A Short Modern History of Choice


MarketThink


Wanted: A Better Way of Thinking about Choices


Jack Shops at WalMart



Good Choices and Bad Outcomes


Jack and Jill's Ugly Divorce


The Prisoner's Dilemma


Choosing the Right Words


Choosing the Right Starting Point



Private Choices and Public Failures


Jill Drops a Coffee Cup


Choosing Our Environment


Choosing Our Cities


Choosing Where to Shop


The Kind of Problem a City Is



Arms Races and Red Queens


Jack Keeps up with the Joneses


A Selection of Arms Races


Choosing to Be Cool


From Commodity to Status Symbol



Co-operation and Its Limits


Enduring Love


Choosing to Reciprocate


Choosing Not to Compete


Choosing in Groups and Crowds


Choosing Temptation



Divide and Conquer


Choosing Not to Vote


Companies and Individual Choice


The Market as a Public Good



That Obscure Object of Desire


Buying Sneakers at Whimsley Mall


Identifying the Real Choice


Game Theory: What Is It Good For?



Join or Get Run Over


Choosing a Nightclub in Whimsley


A Selection of Herd Choices


Choosing Our Schools


Choosing Our Technologies


Fooled by Randomness



The Devil You Know


Jack Goes to the Movies


Choosing Our Fashions


Choosing Our Culture


Jill Buys a Lemon


A Basket of Lemons


Choosing Where to Eat


Squeezing the Lemons



Free to Choose, but Exploited


Power, Relationships, and Context


Choosing Stability


Choosing to Be Exploited



Beyond Whimsley


The Ultimatum Game


Jill Hits the Ceiling


Choosing to Reject


A Backward Glance


Notes


Bibliography


Index