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Reply To: | The philosophy, work & influences of Noam Chomsky |
Date: | Fri, 29 Oct 1999 16:55:22 -0700 |
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On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Ed Burns wrote:
> Continuing corporate growth staves off economic collapse, in our
> current, misguided, system. Advertising is intended to continue
> corporate growth. Never mind if continuing corporate growth is killing
It seems to me that curtailing *growth* does not
neccessitate *collapse*. Do you buy the argument
that, say, a steady-state economy is a "collapse"?
Actually, what I was looking for was some sources
on the influence of advertising on the economy.
I'm too lazy to hunt this stuff down, I was hoping
Tresy or someone else would have some interesting
info.
Clearly, it seems to play a large part. What
I wanted to know of were any "studies" on the
effects of reducing frivolous overadvertising.
There definitely should be a major effect, but I
doubt the economy would "collapse". But then I'm
no economist.
--prashanth
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