Virginia Postrel
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The Power of Glamour: Now Available for Pre-Order
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference : Critically acclaimed author and Bloomberg View columnist Virginia Postrel offers a provocative theory of glamour, elucidating how this dominant cultural force shapes our most fundamental choices, channels from Mango & Ginger Read more »
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SEPARATING DISEQUILIBRIUM?
economies among Creative Class types have created rising house prices, in a way that Virginia Postrel suggests might be self-reinforcing, in a way that might ultimately prevent the influx of new creative types. The news isn’t all bad. Less-educated workers from Cold Spring Shops Read more »
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WalMart Is A Technology, Just Like Selfridges And Sears & Roebuck Were
of my favourite writers on economics, Virginia Postrel*, points out something interesting about the new TV show, Mr. Selfridges. That in reality such new methods of retailing are a technology, just as much as a new way of making cars or a new method of phoning from Forbes Read more »
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Retailing As Liberating
was intrigued with Virginia Postrel’s article today in Bloomberg on a new BBC television show — “Mr. Selfridge” — that celebrates retailing and the creation of the modern department store as a place that helped change the role of women. Virginia notes that from Openmarket.org Read more »
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Both Left and Right Are Afraid of Change
of the left, however. Some years ago Pope John Paul II denounced cloning as a dangerous experiment. You could argue (and Virginia Postrel does, in The Future and Its Enemies) that for all their differences the left and right often are united against the perceived from Reason Read more »
