![]() ![]() ![]() She is the author of The Hungry Gene: The Science of Fat and the Future of Thin and A Child’s Place.Įllen Ruppel Shell talked about her book Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture (Penguin Press The (July 2, 2009). Atlantic correspondent Shell (The Hungry Gene) tackles more than just discount culture in this wide-ranging book that argues that the American drive toward. She is a correspondent for dozens of national publications including Time and Atlantic Monthly. Ellen Ruppel Shell is associate professor and co-director of the Knight Center for Science and Medical Journalism at Boston University. She also responded to questions from members of the audience at the Newton Free Library on Thursday, October 15, 2009, at 7:30 p.m. She illustrated her talk with slides and read passages from her book. She talked about the psychology of consumerism and the history of consumerism and industrialization. In her book she argues that our love of bargains has led to a market filled with poor quality products and an economy that increasingly excludes the working class. In a wide-ranging narrative that takes us from a downsized marketing executive in Massachusetts, to a father of three in Appalachia finding purpose and. ![]() T08:01:02-04:00 Ellen Ruppel Shell talked about her book Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture (Penguin Press The (July 2, 2009). Food engineering has helped make chicken profitable, but its immigrant labor that has kept cheap chicken possible Ellen Ruppel Shell Who Made. ![]()
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