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Cheaponomics - The High Cost of Low Prices (Hardcover, New)
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Cheaponomics - The High Cost of Low Prices (Hardcover, New)
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Do you really think you are getting a good deal when given that
free mobile phone for switching service providers, if a
multinational retailer undercuts its competitors or by the fact
that food is relatively cheaper today in many countries than ever
before? Think again! As Michael Carolan clearly shows in this
compelling book, cheapness is an illusion. The real cost of low
prices is alarmingly high. It is shown for example that citizens
are frequently subsidising low prices through welfare support to
poorly-paid workers in their own country, or relying on the
exploitation of workers in poor countries for cheap goods.
Environmental pollution may not be costed into goods and services,
but is paid for indirectly by people living away from its source or
by future generations. Even with private cars, when the total costs
of this form of mobility are tallied it proves to be an
astronomically expensive model of transportation. All of these
costs need to be accounted for. The author captures these issues by
the concept of "cheaponomics". The key point is that costs and
risks are socialised: we all pay for cheapness, but not at the
point of purchase. Drawing on a wide range of examples and issues
from over-consumption and waste to over-work, unemployment,
inequality, and the depersonalising of communities, it is
convincingly shown that cheapness can no longer be seen as such a
bargain. Instead we need to refocus for a better sense of
well-being, social justice and a balanced approach to prosperity.
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