{"product_id":"the-predatory-society-deception-in-the-american-marketplace-9780195066548","title":"The Predatory Society: Deception in the American Marketplace","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Paul Blumberg\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Criminology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho knows more about a business's shady practices than the people who work there? In this pioneering study, Paul Blumberg examines a wide variety of evidence, including over 600 accounts written by workers who disclose in elaborate detail the deceptions their employers practiced on the public. Employed in a wide variety of business enterprises--supermarkets, restaurants, fish markets, department stores, gas stations, drug stores, pet stores, and many more--these workers pull back the curtain and reveal the hidden recesses of the American marketplace. \u003cbr\u003e Blumberg documents these deceptions in numerous vivid stories, providing readers with a trenchant handbook on survival in America. He tells of stores that routinely mark prices up before a sale; gas stations that sell regular gas as high test; auto mechanics who spray-paint customers' old car parts and then charge them for new parts (in one gas stations, the workers claimed that the mechanic's best tool was his paint can); and pharmacists who sell generic drugs and charge name-brand prices. \u003cbr\u003e But equally important, he provides an insightful analysis of why deception pervades the American marketplace. Though at times amusing, \u003cem\u003eThe Predatory Society\u003c\/em\u003e is also frequently disturbing for what it says about private capitalism: how dishonesty is all but built into the American marketplace, and how this dishonesty has potentially disastrous effects on trust and community in our society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47591926300823,"sku":"9780195066548","price":6300.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780195066548.webp?v=1774975202","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-predatory-society-deception-in-the-american-marketplace-9780195066548","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}