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Book: People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
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  1. Joseph E. Stiglitz _ People, Power, and Profits:

    Cigarette companies succeeded in using these methods to cast doubt on scientific findings that smoking was bad for health; and firms of all kinds succeed in persuading individuals to buy products that they might not otherwise have bought,
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  2. Joseph E. Stiglitz _ People, Power, and Profits:

    We know through advances in behavioral economics and marketing that one can manipulate perceptions and beliefs.
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  3. Joseph E. Stiglitz _ People, Power, and Profits:

    truth-telling, truth-discovering, and truth-verification institutions evolved, and we owe to them much of the success of our economy and our democracy.21 Central among them is an active media. Like all institutions, it is fallible; but its investigations are part of our society's overall system of checks and balances, providing an important public good.
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  4. Joseph E. Stiglitz _ People, Power, and Profits:

    misshapen economy creates misshapen individuals and a misshapen society
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  5. Joseph E. Stiglitz _ People, Power, and Profits:

    Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country
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