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Tactics for Consumers

Brindze, Ruth | October 10, 1936 issue

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This article focuses on the book "The Decline and Rise of the Consumer," by Horace M. Kallen. In the epilogue to his book Kallen remarks that "forecasts should be left to weather men, statisticians and fortune-tellers." Being a philosopher, Kallen should therefore have been content to deny himself the pleasure of gazing into the crystal ball. Unfortunately he was not and his final chapter, in which he lyrically describes the good life in a cooperative world, is a dead give-away of some of the essential weaknesses of this economic pattern and of the willingness of even one of its more objective expounders to delude himself.

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DECLINE & Rise of the Consumer: A Philosophy of Consumer Cooperation, The (Book); CONSUMERS; KALLEN, Horace M.; CONSUMERISM; ECONOMIC systems; BOOKS
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