Cheap by Ellen Ruppel Shell
From shuttered factories to look-alike high streets and shopping centres, the Western world has been transformed by its relentless fixation on low prices. This pervasive yet little examined obsession is arguably the most powerful and devastating market force of today - the engine of globalisation, outsourcing, planned obsolescence and economic instability in an increasingly unsettled world. In this myth-shattering, closely reasoned and exhaustively reported investigation, Shell exposes the astronomically high cost of living 'cheap'.Ellen Ruppel Shell, a correspondent for The Atlantic, is a co-director of Boston University's Graduate School in Science Journalism. She's written for publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, Smithsonian, Slate, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, O, Scientific American, and Science Magazine. Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture, The Hungry Gene, and A Child's Place are among her works. She is a resident of the Boston metro area.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780143117636 |
| ISBN 10 | 0143117637 |
| Title | Cheap |
| Author | Ellen Ruppel Shell |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2010-06-29 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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