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Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Updated edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 312 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Offering a study of the application of the science of choice, this guide uses examples from all aspects of life to demonstrate how it is possible to design environments that make it more likely for us to act in our own interests.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
xxii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Why do smart people make irrational decisions every day? The answers will surprise you. This book is a look at why we all make illogical decisions. Why can a 50-cent aspirin do what a penny aspirin can't? If an item is "free" it must be a bargain, right? Why is everything relative, even when it shouldn't be? How do our expectations influence our actual opinions and decisions? In this book, the author, a behavioral economist cuts to the heart of our...
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First Vintage Books Edition.
Physical Desc
x, 413 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tim Wu presents a revelatory look at the rise of "attention harvesting," and its transformative effect on our society and ourselves. In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of advertising enticements, branding efforts, sponsored social media, commercials and other efforts to harvest our attention. Over the last century, few times or spaces have remained uncultivated by the "attention merchants," contributing to the distracted,...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xix, 299 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Secondhand, journalist Adam Minter takes us on an unexpected adventure into the often-hidden, multibillion-dollar industry of reuse: thrift stores in the American Southwest to vintage shops in Tokyo, flea markets in Southeast Asia to used-goods enterprises in Ghana, and more. Along the way, Minter meets the fascinating people who handle--and profit from--our rising tide of discarded stuff, and asks a pressing question: In a world that craves shiny...
Author
Publisher
Columbia Global Reports
Pub. Date
c2018
Physical Desc
154 pages : map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
We live in an age of extreme corporate concentration, in which global industries are controlled by just a few giant firms -- big banks, big pharma, and big tech, just to name a few. But concern over what Louis Brandeis called the "curse of bigness" can no longer remain the province of specialist lawyers and economists, for it has spilled over into policy and politics, even threatening democracy itself. History suggests that tolerance of inequality...
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