http://www.crocodyl.org/tags/cartel The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.crocodyl.org/wiki/de_beers <div class="field field-type-text field-field-company-snapshot"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item"><div class="field-label-inline-first">Company Snapshot:&nbsp;</div><p>De Beers is the world's largest supplier and marketer of diamonds -- effectively only a semi-precious stone since the opening of the <a href="http://beautifuldiamonds.net/archives/25">diamond mines in southern Africa</a> in the late nineteenth century. They employ sophisticated advertising strategies to create demand for a product with little or no intrinsic value or worth, which <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/198202/diamond">cannot easily be resold</a> by the consumer.</p> </div></div></div><p><a href="http://www.crocodyl.org/wiki/de_beers">read more</a></p> http://www.crocodyl.org/wiki/de_beers#comments Natural Resources Consumerism &amp; Commercialism Cartel Diamond Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:41:48 -0500 Jerry Kraus 970 at http://www.crocodyl.org