{"id":1985,"date":"2009-07-02T13:37:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T17:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=1985"},"modified":"2009-07-02T13:46:22","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T17:46:22","slug":"is-cheap-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/07\/02\/is-cheap-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Is &#8220;cheap&#8221; worth it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>America has a fixation with discount retail prices, and it&#8217;s costing us.\u00a0 College of Communication Professor <a title=\"Ellen Ruppel Shell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/ellen_shell.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Ellen Ruppel Shell<\/a>, who explores the history, science, psychology, economics, and societal implications of low prices in her new book, &#8220;<em><a title=\"Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture\" href=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,9781594202155,00.html?strSrchSql=Cheap%3A+The+High+Cost+of+Discount+Culture\/Cheap_Ellen_Ruppel_Shell\" target=\"_blank\">Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture<\/a>,&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0discusses the subject in a <a title=\"TIME magazine Q&amp;A\" href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/printout\/0,8816,1908266,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">TIME magazine Q&amp;A<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Ellen Ruppel Shell, 617-353-5973, <a href=\"mailto:eshell@bu.edu\">eshell@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America has a fixation with discount retail prices, and it&#8217;s costing us.\u00a0 College of Communication Professor Ellen Ruppel Shell, who explores the history, science, psychology, economics, and societal implications of low prices in her new book, &#8220;Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture,&#8221;\u00a0discusses the subject in a TIME magazine Q&amp;A. Contact Ellen Ruppel Shell, 617-353-5973, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1402,1404,1403,971],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1991,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions\/1991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}