American Consequences - December 2017

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THE DEATH OF SHOPPING

The bustling marketplace is so foundational to humanity that it has its own phobia. But like many of our hardwired social anxieties, the root meaning of agoraphobia – literally a “fear of the marketplace” – won’t translate for future generations.

By Alice Lloyd

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