The process of producing goods and services is relatively easy to recognize as socially beneficial. But television ads? Telemarketers? Jingles? Junk mail? It is popular to view these commercial activities as inherently wasteful or manipulative, marginally informative or entertaining, at best. In Selling the Dream, John Hood takes the provocative stand that advertising images and sales pitches are actually part of the goods and services themselves, delivering an essential component of the consumer's experience. As such, they are inextricably linked to the basic tenets of the...
The process of producing goods and services is relatively easy to recognize as socially beneficial. But television ads? Telemarketers? Jingles? Jun...
Represents an attempt to sketch out, across a host of policy topics, a realistic strategy for shrinking the welfare state. This book looks backward to human history and even to prehistory to examine the origins of capital formation.
Represents an attempt to sketch out, across a host of policy topics, a realistic strategy for shrinking the welfare state. This book looks backward to...
