marginal utility annex
An annex to my writing elsewhere.
Thursday, July 29, 2004
Natural economies
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A recent book called The New Economy of Nature attempts to offer ways in which current economic preogatives can be made to accomodate envir...
Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Mass meanings
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I was reading a book by James Twitchell called ADCULT USA, which purports to be a fair and balanced appraisal of role of advertising in con...
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
The game show intellectual
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An upcoming book called The Know-it-all documents a man's effort to become the "smartest man in the world" by reading the enc...
Sunday, July 18, 2004
Harry Potter, Market Wiz
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In this essay -- The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Contributor: Harry Potter, Market Wiz -- a French writer argues that Harry Pott...
Thursday, July 15, 2004
Best dressed idiocy
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Is there anything more infuriatingly inane than a "Best Dressed Man" list? Not to say best-dressed lists for women aren't insu...
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
The perfect commodity, your own body
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I was reading a book review about a few recent books on plastic surgery, which offered up the idea that it might be wise to consider plastic...
Monday, July 12, 2004
Of course, after all
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The tell-tale "after all" -- much like its cousin "of course" -- in the following sentence, from T. H Breen's The Ma...
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