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From the shuttered factories of the rust belt to the look-alike strip malls of the sun belt—and almost everywhere in between—America has been transformed by its relentless fixation on low price. This pervasive yet little examined obsession is arguably the most powerful and devastating market force of our time—the engine of globalization, outsourcing, planned obsolescence, and economic instability in an increasingly unsettled world.
Low price is so alluring that we may have forgotten how thoroughly we once distrusted it. Ellen Ruppel Shell traces the birth of the bargain as we know it from the Industrial Revolution to the assembly line and beyond, homing in on a number of colorful characters, such as Gene Verkauf (his name is Yiddish for “to sell”), founder of E. J. Korvette, the discount chain that helped wean customers off traditional notions of value. The rise of the chain store in post–Depression America led to the extolling of convenience over quality, and big-box retailers completed the reeducation of the American consumer by making them prize low price in the way they once prized durability and craftsmanship.
The effects of this insidious perceptual shift are vast: a blighted landscape, escalating debt (both personal and national), stagnating incomes, fraying communities, and a host of other socioeconomic ills. That’s a long list of charges, and it runs counter to orthodox economics which argues that low price powers productivity by stimulating a brisk free market. But Shell marshals evidence from a wide range of fields—history, sociology, marketing, psychology, even economics itself—to upend the conventional wisdom. Cheap also unveils the fascinating and unsettling illogic that underpins our bargain-hunting reflex and explains how our deep-rooted need for bargains colors every aspect of our psyches and social lives. In this myth-shattering, closely reasoned, and exhaustively reported investigation, Shell exposes the astronomically high cost of cheap.
Associate Professor and Co-Director,
Knight Center for Science and Medical Journalism
AB, University of Rochester. Professor Ruppel Shell is the author most recently of "The Hungry Gene: The Science of Fat and the Future of Thin," a widely praised narrative investigation of the science and politics of the world obesity pandemic published in six languages on four continents. A veteran science and medical journalist, she is a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly Magazine, and has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Smithsonian, Time, Discover, Seed, and dozens of other national publications. She lectures and consults frequently on issues in science and the media both in the United States and abroad. She has served as a senior editor on science publications, and a science editor for public television, and was a Vannevar Bush Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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評分Bullshit. Prejudices On China.
評分Bullshit. Prejudices On China.
还行,就是啰嗦了点,这可能是记者的职业病吧,形容词用得太多,让人没法一下子抓住要点。 关于宜家的那个章节有点道理,与我的看法不谋而合。宜家的品质确实不像我们国内好多人认为的那样好。只是由于汇率的关系,宜家产品的价格显得比较高,以至于有好多国人认为...
評分逐利、满足自己需要最大化是对经济人定义的基础,《廉价》就从此基础上分析了价格对我们的影响,为什么消费总是会被低价诱导,还从全球化角度考虑低价的真正原因(向发展中国家转嫁成本)与其所产生的负面效果(全球环境恶化,最发达国家也不能幸免)。整体而言这是一本做得反...
評分逐利、满足自己需要最大化是对经济人定义的基础,《廉价》就从此基础上分析了价格对我们的影响,为什么消费总是会被低价诱导,还从全球化角度考虑低价的真正原因(向发展中国家转嫁成本)与其所产生的负面效果(全球环境恶化,最发达国家也不能幸免)。整体而言这是一本做得反...
評分逐利、满足自己需要最大化是对经济人定义的基础,《廉价》就从此基础上分析了价格对我们的影响,为什么消费总是会被低价诱导,还从全球化角度考虑低价的真正原因(向发展中国家转嫁成本)与其所产生的负面效果(全球环境恶化,最发达国家也不能幸免)。整体而言这是一本做得反...
評分还行,就是啰嗦了点,这可能是记者的职业病吧,形容词用得太多,让人没法一下子抓住要点。 关于宜家的那个章节有点道理,与我的看法不谋而合。宜家的品质确实不像我们国内好多人认为的那样好。只是由于汇率的关系,宜家产品的价格显得比较高,以至于有好多国人认为...
Cheap pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024