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The Politics Of Macromarketing Delivered As Part Of The Plenary Roundtable On Macromarketing And Politics, Alan Bradshaw, Detlev Zwick

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This roundtable session was delivered at the 36th Annual Macromarketing Conference in Williamsburg Virginia, June 2011. The purpose of this roundtable was to generate a critical debate about the politics of macromarketing.

Participants:

Ray Benton, Loyola University Chicago, USA

Alan Bradshaw, Royal Holloway College – University of London, UK

Janice Denegri-Knott, University of Bournemouth, UK

Sanford Grossbart, University of Nebraska, USA

Pia Polsa, HANKEN School of Economics, Finland

Ben Wooliscroft, University of Otago, NZ

Detlev Zwick, York University, Canada

Plenary Session On Macromarketing And Politics Roundtable On Macromarketing And Politics, Raymond Benton Jr.

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In this conference presentation I draw on C.S. Lewis to make the point that newspapers, films, novels, and textbooks all undermine the macromarketing point of view. Every student in every class in all schools of business sees economics everywhere and by it they see, interpret, and understand everything else. That blocks a macromarketing perspective, a perspective that does not rely on the market and the state as the sole alternatives in the provisioning systems of societies (George Fisk’s widely referenced definition of marketing among the macromarketing community). To fully grasp that one must appreciate that the market is a metaphor.