A review by ericfheiman
Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are by Rob Walker

3.0

Even as a designer who needs to (begrudgingly) keep up on business trends, books like these usually bore me to death, let alone tell me anything new or interesting. But Walker, who writes the "Consumed" column in the New York Times magazine, is more insightful than most authors in this vein. His candid, intelligent commentary on "murketing" should interest anyone remotely interested in why we buy the things we do, and the ends (and unintentional forces) companies engage to snag our hard-earned cash.