Choose Your Captivity
How Choice Architects Made Our World and Sold Our Freedom
$74.45
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
16 February 2027
Summary
This is a book about choices. Not the kind you make when you decide who to marry, whether to quit your job, or when to go for a hike. It’s about the kind that hardly existed a hundred years ago but now govern our lives. The kind that have architects.
Choose Your Captivity exposes the hidden forms of designed choice that, by determining the options made available to us, are deployed to steer our attention, behaviour and desires, influencing everything from what we eat to where…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241629758 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241629756 |
| Author: | Eli Cook |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Allen Lane |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 16 February 2027 |
| Weight: | 518g |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 156mm x 240mm |
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Eli Cook
Eli Cook is a historian of capitalism at the University of Haifa. He has held fellowships at the Program for the Study of Capitalism at Harvard University and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. His first book, The Pricing of Progress, won the Best Book Award from the Society for U.S. Intellectual History and the Best Book Prize from the Journal of the History of Ideas. A regular commentator on the economy, American politics and elections, his work has appeared in The Atlantic, Time, Slate, Jacobin and Dissent.
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