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Author Miller, Geoffrey, 1965-

Title Spent : sex, evolution, and consumer behavior / Geoffrey Miller.

Imprint New York : Viking, 2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  339.47 M614s 2009    ---  Available
Description 374 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [336]-361) and index.
Contents Darwin goes to the mall -- The genius of marketing -- Why marketing is central to culture -- This is your brain on money -- The fundamental consumerist delusion -- Flaunting fitness -- Conspicuous waste, precision, and reputation -- Self-branding bodies, self-marketing minds -- The central six -- Traits that consumers flaunt and marketers ignore -- General intelligence -- Openness -- Conscientiousness -- Agreeableness -- The centrifugal soul -- The will to display -- Legalizing freedom -- Exercises for the reader.
Subject Consumption (Economics)
Consumer behavior.
ISBN 9780670020621
0670020621
Standard No. BWX R3784037
AU@ 000043696109
CDX 9234580
NLGGC 318954052

 
    
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