Synthesis

In "The Evocotive Power of Things: Consumer Goods and the Preservations of Hopes an Ideals" by Grant McCracken there are points that support the ideas that are expressed in Andrew Laperriere's "House of Cards". For example, Laperrier says that because credit makes houses "affordable" the prices of homes continues to increase. This is explained by McCracken by stateing that the economy knows and uses the displaced meaning of things. When the prices increase it makes it harder for the ideal to be reached.