Postrel on Style

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.

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Postrel on Style is an episode from EconTalk Archives, 2006 by Library of Economics and Liberty.

This episode is 58:30 long.

This episode was published on Nov 27, 2006.

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