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Guests 
Interviewed by Rex Murphy on the December 21, 2003 program:
"Would Christmas be the same without shopping?"
Laura Byrne Paquet- Author of The Urge To Splurge: A Social History of Shopping
Virginia Postrel- Author of The Substance of Style and a business columnist for The New York Times.
Phyllis Tickle- Author of Greed and contributing editor in religion for Publishers Weekly.
Dan Cook- Associate Professor, University of Illinois and author of The Commodification of Childhood.
Natalie Davis- Author of The Gift in 16th-Century France and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University
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