What is the objective? "What is the objective of the consumer?" Mary Douglas asked in an essay on poverty written 35 years ago. "It is," she said, "to help create the social world and find a credible place in it." That is a deeply humanizing vision of our lives, and it's a completely different vision than the one that lies at the heart of this economic model.
¿Cuál es el objetivo? "¿Cuál es el objetivo del consumidor?" preguntaba Mary Douglas en un ensayo sobre la pobreza escrito hace 35 años.