Schlagwort: Margaret Jones
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Margaret Jones: Selling the System
[Socialism Today, No 1, September 1995, p. 24-27] Modern advertising is selling us more than products, says Margaret Jones. It’s also selling us dreams, illusions and insecurities – and the capitalist system. In the war year 1942 social critic Erich Fromm wrote of the callous triviality of radio commercials: a city was bombed, with thousands…
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Margaret Jones: Natural-born killers?
[Socialism Today, No 14, December 1996, p. 25-28] Did Darwin really believe that society was biologically predetermined to be competitive rather than co-operative? Margaret Jones argues that the ’social Darwinians‘ have got it wrong. Want to succeed in business? Your firm will need to think hard about its ‚predatory pricing strategies‘, if it is to…