Creating the Nazi Marketplace

Mass Consumption Isn’t Just All-American — The Nazis Had It, Too

Today, no one can deny the importance of consumption to the American economy.  By some counts, consumer spending constitutes over seventy percent of our GNP, and the countdown to special winter shopping days—notably “Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday”—has taken on a ritualistic quality.  Especially during a recession, economists and journalists scour retail sales figures to […]

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