Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture - Hardcover

Ellen Ruppel Shell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 159420215X ISBN 13: 9781594202155

Publisher: PENGUIN USA, 2009

Synopsis

From shuttered factories to look-alike high streets and shopping centres, the Western world 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 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 ''cheap''.

About this title

About the Author:

Ellen Ruppel Shell is a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly, and has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, National Geographic, Time, Discover, Seed, and dozens of other national publications. She is the author, most recently, of The Hungry Gene, which was published in six languages, and is Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Knight Center for Science and Medical Journalism at Boston University.

About this edition

• Publisher: PENGUIN USA
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 159420215X
• ISBN 13: 9781594202155
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320