Some musings on the business world and marketing. I'm not a marketer, but I play one on TV, and so I am interested in how persuasion, trust, branding, and the culture of desire interact in our modern pomo capitalist world.

Does this sound familiar?
"But the most absurd and preposterous of all, and which showed, more completely than any other, the utter madness of the people, was one, started by an unknown adventurer, entitled "company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." [more]

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There is a lot of interest in frictionless markets, price-determination, etc. I think that many of these studies naively focus on the purely economic view and miss the social and systems aspects. [more]