This book examines the history & reasons behind the movement away from quality toward price in the Western world (mostly the USA, but some UK & Canada references) - ie. changing the meaning of the word value.Globalization is discussed in a very clear manner, and there are solutions/improvements t...
In a market awash in increasingly similar—even identical—goods, price is the ultimate arbiter; the lower, the better. I know this because I live it. I buy $10 bootleg watches from street vendors, repressing the suspicion that in six weeks’ time said timepiece is as likely to sprout wings as to te...