Hiding in Plain View: The Past and Present of Manipulative Advertising – Los Angeles Review of Books

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/hiding-in-plain-view-the-past-and-present-of-manipulative-advertising/

Yet even if the motivation research Packard described was not as effective as he claimed, his book raised a fundamental social question: when does acceptable commercial persuasion cross the line into unacceptable manipulation?