Does Too Much Choice Paralyze Us?

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Mon, 08/31/2015 - 12:00am
Questioning whether having many choices is always a bad thing
Jan Haaken and Tod Sloan examine psychologist Barry Schwartz' thesis in The Paradox of Choice - that having so many choices in consumer society makes us miserable.  They offer more compelling angles on the psychology of choice and economic behavior drawing on Marx and Marcuse.

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