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Is the American Dream Killing You?: How "The Market" Rules Our Lives
by
Paul Stiles
The "market" is the collective name for every act of buying and selling we participate in. It governs our economy and our lives, determining our values, our goals, and our accomplishments. We make it--and are made by it.
In "Is the American Dream Killing You?" Paul Stiles shows how the pressures of the market are causing undue stress in all our lives.
...morePaperback, 305 pages
Published
September 1st 2006
by HarperCollins Publishers
(first published October 1st 2005)
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Stiles does a great job critiquing our American market system, though I believe his diagnosis is tragically wrong. He blames the market for driving Americans toward destructive greed. But in fact, he has it backwards. The market cannot compel anyone to do anything. People drive the market, not vice-versa.
The free market is not, nor has it ever been the problem--the problem is human greed that drives or compels the market into a hypermarket, as he calls it. The hypermarket is no...more
The free market is not, nor has it ever been the problem--the problem is human greed that drives or compels the market into a hypermarket, as he calls it. The hypermarket is no...more
Is the American Dream Killing You? : How "the Market" Rules Our Lives by Paul Stiles (2005)
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