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Communication and economic life

Communication and economic life CONSUMPTION MARKETS & CULTURE BOOK REVIEW Communication and economic life, Liz Moor, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2021, 208 pp., €20.40 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-745-68702-5 I wander along isles in a grocery store with signs in a foreign language. Nothing speaks to me directly except for numbers and the colors used to communicate that something is on sale. Red. Is coffee still THAT expensive? Then the crisis must still be ongoing. It does not really matter which one or if there is more than one. The price signals something to me, maybe about the world, maybe about myself, or maybe about my relationship with the world. For now, that is enough. One of the few things I do remember from economics – besides being told that the models we learned had nothing to do with ‘real life’– is that a rise in inflation means that too many people are employed yet the streets are full of people seemingly without jobs? What is economic about that, or anything else for that matter? I am not quite sure but, luckily, Liz Moor has thought about it. In Communication and Economic Life, Moor departs from the discrepancy between the general idea of ‘the economy’ (often http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Consumption Markets & Culture Taylor & Francis

Communication and economic life

Wickström, Alice
Consumption Markets & Culture , Volume 26 (2): 3 – Mar 4, 2023
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2022 Alice Wickström
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CONSUMPTION MARKETS & CULTURE BOOK REVIEW Communication and economic life, Liz Moor, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2021, 208 pp., €20.40 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-745-68702-5 I wander along isles in a grocery store with signs in a foreign language. Nothing speaks to me directly except for numbers and the colors used to communicate that something is on sale. Red. Is coffee still THAT expensive? Then the crisis must still be ongoing. It does not really matter which one or if there is more than one. The price signals something to me, maybe about the world, maybe about myself, or maybe about my relationship with the world. For now, that is enough. One of the few things I do remember from economics – besides being told that the models we learned had nothing to do with ‘real life’– is that a rise in inflation means that too many people are employed yet the streets are full of people seemingly without jobs? What is economic about that, or anything else for that matter? I am not quite sure but, luckily, Liz Moor has thought about it. In Communication and Economic Life, Moor departs from the discrepancy between the general idea of ‘the economy’ (often

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