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The Resource Cheap : The High Cost of Discount Culture, Ellen Ruppel Shell
Cheap : The High Cost of Discount Culture, Ellen Ruppel Shell
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The item Cheap : The High Cost of Discount Culture, Ellen Ruppel Shell represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boston University Libraries.
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- Summary
- An Atlantic correspondent uncovers the true cost--in economic, political, and psychic terms--of our penchant for making and buying things as cheaply as possible, providing evidence that "buying cheap" has resulted in a host of socioeconomic ills that include a blighted landscape, escalating debt (both personal and national), stagnating incomes, and fraying communities
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xix, 296 pages
- Contents
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- Discount nation
- The founding fathers
- Winner take nothing
- The outlet gambit
- Markdown madness
- Death of a craftsman
- Discounting and its discontents
- Cheap eats
- The double-headed dragon
- The perfect price
- Isbn
- 9781594202155
- Label
- Cheap : The High Cost of Discount Culture
- Title
- Cheap
- Title remainder
- The High Cost of Discount Culture
- Statement of responsibility
- Ellen Ruppel Shell
- Subject
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- Consumer behavior -- United States
- Discount houses (Retail trade)
- Discount houses (Retail trade) -- United States
- Discountgeschäft
- Discountgeschäft
- USA
- Consumer behavior
- United States
- Verbraucherverhalten
- Verbraucherverhalten
- Volkswirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnung
- Volkswirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnung
- USA
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- An Atlantic correspondent uncovers the true cost--in economic, political, and psychic terms--of our penchant for making and buying things as cheaply as possible, providing evidence that "buying cheap" has resulted in a host of socioeconomic ills that include a blighted landscape, escalating debt (both personal and national), stagnating incomes, and fraying communities
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1952-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Shell, Ellen Ruppel
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HF5429.215.U6
- LC item number
- S54 2009
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Discount houses (Retail trade)
- Consumer behavior
- Consumer behavior
- Discount houses (Retail trade)
- Verbraucherverhalten
- Volkswirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnung
- Discountgeschäft
- Verbraucherverhalten
- Volkswirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnung
- Discountgeschäft
- United States
- USA
- USA
- Label
- Cheap : The High Cost of Discount Culture, Ellen Ruppel Shell
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-285) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Discount nation -- The founding fathers -- Winner take nothing -- The outlet gambit -- Markdown madness -- Death of a craftsman -- Discounting and its discontents -- Cheap eats -- The double-headed dragon -- The perfect price
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xix, 296 pages
- Isbn
- 9781594202155
- Lccn
- 2009009503
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)276819188
- (OCoLC)ocn276819188
- Label
- Cheap : The High Cost of Discount Culture, Ellen Ruppel Shell
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-285) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Discount nation -- The founding fathers -- Winner take nothing -- The outlet gambit -- Markdown madness -- Death of a craftsman -- Discounting and its discontents -- Cheap eats -- The double-headed dragon -- The perfect price
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xix, 296 pages
- Isbn
- 9781594202155
- Lccn
- 2009009503
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)276819188
- (OCoLC)ocn276819188
Subject
- Consumer behavior -- United States
- Discount houses (Retail trade)
- Discount houses (Retail trade) -- United States
- Discountgeschäft
- Discountgeschäft
- USA
- Consumer behavior
- United States
- Verbraucherverhalten
- Verbraucherverhalten
- Volkswirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnung
- Volkswirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnung
- USA
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