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Consumers and the Economy
- Ten radio pieces available to stations, including:
- The Future of Retail and Business- the virtual workplace and what corporations might look like; plus the fate of the neighborhood mall.
- Virtual Goods, Real People- why people pay real money for products that only exist online
- Burning Man and the Gift Economy- the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert allows no commerce. Festival founder Larry Harvey explains how it works.
- Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior- how marketers exploit our unconscious evolutionary desires for status and sexual attractiveness
- Affordable Textbooks- a university in upstate New York tries out a textbook rental program
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