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Buying in : the Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are by Walker, Rob, 1968- is a business book available to read on EtoBox.

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Brands are dead. Advertising no longer works. Consumers are in control. Or so we're told. In Buying In, Rob Walker argues that this accepted wisdom misses a much more important cultural shift, including a practice he calls murketing, in which people create brands of their own and participate, in unprecedented ways, in marketing campaigns for their favorites. Yes, rather than becoming immune to them, we are rapidly embracing brands. Profiling Timberland, American Apparel, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Red Bull, iPod, and Livestrong, among others, Walker demonstrates the ways in which buyers adopt products not just as consumer choices but as conscious expressions of their identities. Part marketing primer, part work of cultural anthropology, Buying In reveals why now, more than ever, we are what we buy—and vice versa.

Who reads Buying in : the Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are?

Author

Walker, Rob, 1968-

Publisher

New York : Random House

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781588367297

Category

business

Subjects

Marketing, Anthropology, Business

Rating

3.63 / 5 (821 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13