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{{Chicago | Chicago = [[Tom Slee|Slee, Tom]]. 2006. ''[[No One Makes You Shop At Wall Mart: The Surprising Deceptions Of Individual Choice]]''. Between The Lines.}} <!-- two single quotes for italics --> <noinclude> __NOTOC__ <!-- you can have any number of categories here --> [[Category:Tom Slee]] [[Category:Leaving Libertarianism]] [[Category:Economics 101]] [[Category:Alternatives To Current Capitalism]] {{Availability | isbn = 189707106X | | | }} <!-- can place links to online versions between the bars --> {{DES | des = [[Tom Slee]]'s easy to read game-theoretic description of how [[MarketThink]], the dogma of individual choice, does not lead to optimal outcomes. | show=}} <!-- Place text about the book here. --> The major theme of this book is that "individual choice" is an unreliable and treacherous guide in our pursuit of prosperity and happiness. "Individual choice" has been a propaganda staple of [[MarketThink]], the ideology of markets as ideal solutions for all problems. Tom's major points: ; Individual choice does not give us what we want. : Simple prisoner's dilemma and commons examples show that group choices can be better choices, even when individuals are rational. ; Freedom of choice promotes the private, degrades the public. : This is the classic "privatize the profits, socialize the costs." ; Freedom of choice produces inequality based not on merit, but on luck. : Because it produces a winner-take-all society, with rewards out of proportion to effort and benefit. ; Freedom of choice does not preclude the exercise of power. : Collective action and collective choice are legitimate values too. ; Freedom of choice does not preclude exploitation. : "Free exchange" gives the lion's share of the benefits to whichever party can more easily walk away from a deal. ; Predictability drives out quality. : The market for lemons causes deadweight losses. ; Social exclusion is self-sustaining. : Breaking barriers of exclusion is costly for defectors, maintaining the exclusion. Very similar to the prisoners dilemma. Highly recommended. <!-- DPL has problems with categories that have a single quote in them. Use these explicit workarounds. --> <!-- normally, we would use {{Links}} and {{Quotes}} --> {{List|No One Makes You Shop At Wall Mart: The Surprising Deceptions Of Individual Choice|links=true}} {{Quotations|No One Makes You Shop At Wall Mart: The Surprising Deceptions Of Individual Choice|quotes=true}} </noinclude>
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