Art & Commerce: Debra Goldman's Consumer Republic

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Buyers are capricious; values clash at the cash register
The tear gas clouds in Seattle had barely dissipated before op-ed pundits united to dismiss the startling demonstrations against the World Trade Organization-not to mention Niketown and Starbucks-as wrong-headed, misinformed, contradictory, elitist and crackpot.
The Seattle protesters were so muddleheaded, their critics claimed, they failed to understand the power of consumers. Yes, the WTO declared a U.S. ban on tuna caught with nets that trapped dolphins is an illegal restraint of trade, the free traders conceded.

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