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Cheap : the high cost of discount culture / Ellen Ruppel Shell. Shell, Ellen Ruppel, 1952- author.
New York : Penguin Press, 2009.
xix, 296 pages ; 25 cm
An Atlantic correspondent uncovers the true cost--in economic, political, and psychic terms--of our penchant for making and buying things as cheaply as possible, providing evidence that "buying cheap" has resulted in a host of socioeconomic ills that include a blighted landscape, escalating debt (both personal and national), stagnating incomes, and fraying communities.