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The price of a bargain : the quest for cheap and the death of globalization / Gordon Laird.

Author: Laird, Gordon, 1967-

Edition Statement:1st ed.

Imprint:New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Description282 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Note:The bargaineers: fear and housewares in Las Vegas -- Quantum cheap: progress is price destruction -- China crisis: the end of cheap labor -- Supply chain nation: Cargo cults of the twenty-first century -- All is plastic: the small world of hydrocarbons -- We, the resource: journeys to the end of cheap -- Shock therapy: Can high prices save us?

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.



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Laird, Gordon, 1967-
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Discount houses (Retail trade) -- United States.
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