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Postrel on Style
EconTalk Archives, 2006
English - November 27, 2006 12:00 - 58 minutes - 13.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsCourses Education Science Social Sciences business leadership health interview entrepreneurship entrepreneur fitness finance politics news Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Author and journalist Virginia Postrel talks about how business competes for customers using style and beauty, going beyond price and the standard measures of quality. She looks at the role of appearance in our daily lives and the change from earlier times when style and beauty were luxuries accessible only to the wealthy. She also talks about her donation of a kidney to a friend and how that affected the intensity of her feelings about the policies surrounding organ donations.