Cheap : the high cost of discount culture / Ellen Ruppel Shell.

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, escalatin...

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Main Author: Shell, Ellen Ruppel, 1952-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2009.
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Holy Cross Note:Rehm copy signed by the author.
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