Nostalgia Economy: Why the Past Keeps Outselling the Future

The past is not only remembered. It is packaged, streamed, reissued, collected, licensed, displayed, resold and sold back to us.In The Nostalgia Economy: Why the Past Keeps Outselling the Future, Rowan Hale explores one of the defining forces in modern consumer culture: the transformation of memory into market power. From vinyl records and streaming catalogues to adult toy collectors, resale fashi...