Suggested reading and the like

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• Cheap: The high cost of discount culture
  by Ellen Ruppel Shell
  Excellent, quite detailed, analysis of the damaging effects of regarding low price as the most important factor in purchasing.
  
  
• The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-made Landscape
  by James Howard Kunstler
  
  
• No Contest: The Case Against Competition
  Alfie Kohn
  
  
• What Computers Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason
  by Hubert L. Dreyfus
  
  
• You Are Not a Gadget
  by Jaron Lanier