Monday, January 14th, 2008
If those folks at the New York Times can be trusted, personal consumption accounts for 70 percent of the economy. That freak you out? Think of it. All the business mergers, corporate purchases, billion-dollar companies buying billion-dollar companies, and so on make up less than one-third of the economy. The lion's ...
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Anticonsumerism is really as broad a topic as business is, but there are several topics I plan to focus on in particular in this blog.
1. Anticonsumer efforts themselves
Did you know that Slow Down Week starts Monday? It's an effort by the folks at anticonsumer magazine Adbusters to get people to ...
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