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Richard H. Thaler • Nudge: The Final Edition
Yancey Strickler • This Could Be Our Future by Yancey Strickler: 9780525560845 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Clay Shirky • Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
The bottle service club today pitches Goffman’s “action” to the world’s new elite; it encourages the rich to flaunt their riches, to display wealth for display’s sake. Bottle service clubs are predicated on conspicuous consumption, a term coined, in 1899, by Thorstein Veblen, the quirky Norwegian American economist.
Ashley Mears • Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
Geoffrey Miller, professor of evolutionary psychology at the University of Mexico, explains: Humans evolved in small social groups in which image and status were all–important, not only for survival, but for attracting mates, impressing friends, and rearing children. Today we ornament ourselves with goods and services more to make an impression on
... See moreDr. David Lewis • The Brain Sell: How the new mind sciences and the persuasion industry are reading our thoughts, influencing our emotions, and stimulating us to shop
Geoffrey Miller, professor of evolutionary psychology at the University of Mexico, explains: Humans evolved in small social groups in which image and status were all–important, not only for survival, but for attracting mates, impressing friends, and rearing children. Today we ornament ourselves with goods and services more to make an impression on
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