Horse Trading in the Age of Cars: Men in the Marketplace

摘要

Most readers know from personal experience the reality documented by this book: automobiles are sold under a different ethical and economic dispensation relative to other products. Car buyers do not pay list price, cannot return their purchase if dissatisfied, and must haggle and even lie before going home with a shiny new automobile. However familiar this "retail exceptionalism," as Steven Gelber terms it (p. 15), his is the first scholarly monograph exclusively dealing with the subject.