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Monday, July 13, 2009

Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture


by Ellen Ruppel Shell. An Atlantic correspondent evaluates America's penchant for making and buying cheap products while assessing the true economic, political, and psychological costs of such goods, in a report that argues that a focus on low prices is promoting negative practices.

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