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Pub. Date
2009
Summary
From the shuttered factories of the rust belt to the look-alike strip malls of the sun belt-and almost everywhere in between-America 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 our time-the engine of globalization, outsourcing, planned obsolescence, and economic instability in an increasingly unsettled world.Low price is so...
Author
Series
Dakota trilogy volume 4
Summary
Vaughn Kyle, just out of the army, arrives in the small prairie town of Buffalo Valley, North Dakota, to visit an old family friend while his reluctant fiancee makes up her mind. There he encounters Carrie Hendrickson and soon everything he once thought he wanted is called into question, forcing him to make a decision that will change his life forever.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Summary
Examines Wal-Mart's importation of Chinese goods into the United States. Discusses that while some economists credit Wal-Mart's focus on low costs with helping contain U.S. inflation, others charge that the company is the main force driving the massive overseas shift to China in the production of American consumer goods, resulting in hundreds of thousands of lost jobs and a lower standard of living in the U.S.
