Glad I’m Not a Socialist – Reflections on Marx
*Whew!* what a confusing reading! My head is still spinning. I think I got dumber by the minute as I read that. One of the first things I did was to look up the exact definition of a “commodity”. I had...
View ArticleKeeping up with the Joneses – Reflections on Veblen
Thorstein Veblen’s reading was a welcome departure from Monday’s Marx reading and not just because he has a cool name. Though this reading was quite fluid and made sense, I have to say, I detested the...
View ArticlePraying to the gods of Capitalism – Reflections on Fiske
When I started reading the first few pages of Fiske, I was looking for a picture of myself in a text box, because many of the things he was writing reminded me so much of the way I personally use a...
View ArticleA New Look at First Grade Economics – Reflections on Strasser
As I read Strasser this weekend, I couldn’t help but think of the fun I had helping my youngest son complete his first grade Economics homework. He had to make a “wants” and “needs” poster, so we went...
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Thundershirt To The Rescue!!!!
I have two Labradoodles. Maggie and Fiona are littermates and they are seven years old now. They have always both had anxiety issues to some degree. Fiona still can’t ride in the car without drooling...
View ArticleTarget and Sears & Roebuck. Oh my! – Reflections on Strasser II
As I read Strasser this weekend, I couldn’t help but think of the fun I had helping my youngest son complete his first grade Economics homework. He had to make a “wants” and “needs” poster, so we went...
View ArticlePetula Clark Said It Best: “Downtown – Everything’s Waiting For You”–...
Downtown America has been interesting, thus far. First of all, having already looked at the shift from the “downtown” environment to shopping malls several decades later, it was interesting to look at...
View Article“The Bulldozer of Progress” – Reflections on John Sprinkle
I really enjoyed listening to John Sprinkle last night. I already knew quite a bit about the particulars of Executive Order 11593 from my time in HISP 101 last summer, but it certainly was interesting...
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Civil Rights and Social Wrongs – Reflections on Isenberg, Part II
The second part of this book was as good as the first, though focused quite differently. It was interesting to follow the troubled history of the formerly beloved downtown spaces through the civil...
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Here’s some advanced viewing for next week’s online shopping module! Rhett and Link’s advice on “How to be an Expert Shopper” Click here to view the embedded video.
View ArticleDowntown Fredricksburg – Revisited for the Third Time
Name of location: Downtown Fredericksburg, VA Time and date: 11:00 a.m., Friday, February 17, 2012 Weather conditions: Partly Sunny, Cool and...
View Article“Yeah, that’s great. But what about now?” Reflections on Gladwell
This article by Malcolm Gladwell was very interesting. I do wish it had been written a little more recently. More accurately, I wish another article had been written since. I’d love to know what has...
View ArticlePolyvore, meet Pinterest – Reflections on Jacobs
The Polyvore article was interesting, but the whole time I was reading, I couldn’t help asking myself, “What am I supposed to be getting out of this?” I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to be considering...
View ArticleLooking For a Few Good Men – Reflections on Smith
I found Ray Smith’s Wall Street Journal article interesting for a few reasons. First of all, I do *a lot* of internet shopping and I hadn’t ever heard of any of the sites he mentioned in the first 4...
View ArticleI Still Have a Dumb Phone – Reflections on Beck
This article was not exactly what I expected. It didn’t really seem to focus on mobile shopping aid apps as much as I expected it to. After the first couple of paragraphs, it seemed to wander quickly...
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Love In Your Freezer Aisle – Alexia Spicy Sweet Potato Fries
I took last semester with a preachy do-gooder professor. The things I learned in that class really opened my eyes to the horrors of the food I had been buying in my local grocery stores and as a...
View ArticleA World With No Wal*Mart? – Reflections on Moreton
It’s very interesting to me to think that I can clearly remember a time when no Wal*Mart existed in my town. It’s not because I lived in some backwater country hamlet, but simply because Wal*Mart had...
View ArticleNot Enough Nickels and Dimes – Reflections on Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickled and Dimed was a very interesting commentary on a growing problem in America’s workplaces today. The fact that the problem is so large that experts were able to coin the...
View ArticleMy Walmart adventure – a fieldwork post
Name of location: Walmart, 14030 Abercorn St, Savannah, GA Time and date: 11:00 a.m., Friday, March 16th, 2012 Weather conditions: Sunny and Bright, 76° I was unable to accompany the rest of the class...
View ArticleKeeping up with the Joneses and the Kardashians – Reflections on Schor
One of the first things I noticed about Schor’s book, The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting and the New Consumer, is that it was written in 1998, before most of America knew what a Kardashian...
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