Marketing Papers
Document Type
Review
Date of this Version
October 1990
Abstract
The Predatory Society examines the inadequacies of marketing and the free market system. It is written by a sociologist. I think that, in general, sociologists are biased against marketing people. The bias runs like this: Sociologists believe that consenting adults should be allowed to enter into agreements without state interference. However, if those agreements involve legal transactions with money, the freedom of the consenting adults should be abridged for the protection of those adults. An elite should decide how much freedom is in the interests of these people. Translated into marketers' terms, the argument is that the state should regulate the behavior of adult buyers and sellers because the former are honest but incompetent and the latter are often dishonest. Blumberg lives up to some of my expectations, but he is also aware of the arguments favoring the free market.
Recommended Citation
Jaworski, B. J., & Armstrong, J. S. (1990). Review of Paul Bloomberg, The Predatory Society: Deception in the American Marketplace. Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/marketing_papers/126
Date Posted: 18 June 2007
This document has been peer reviewed.
Comments
Postprint version. Published in Journal of Marketing, Volume 54, Issue 4, October 1990, pages 127-128.
Publisher URL: http://www.ama.org/pubs/jm/