Flavor of the month : why smart people fall for fads /

Joel Best explores the range of institutional fads, analyses the features of our culture that foster them, and identifies the major stages of the fad cycle: emerging, surging, and purging. He examines the causes and consequences of fads and suggests ways of fad-proofing our institutions.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Best, Joel
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press ©2006.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnswk