'I would expect academics working in the fields of consumer psychology, business (in particular business ethics), organisational behaviour, management, marketing etc. would be well equiped to investigate MLM.'
Purplelilly Probably the people best equipped to see beyond all the thought-stopping the 'MLM' bullshit are professional stage hypnotists and illusionists. To date, almost everything which has been written on the subject of 'MLM' by academics hasn't even begun to identify the underlying nature of the problem, which is as follows
More than half a century of quantifiable evidence, proves beyond all reasonable doubt that what has become popularly known as 'Multi-Level Marketing' is nothing more than an absurd, cultic, economic pseudo-science, and that the impressive-sounding made-up term 'MLM,' is, therefore, part of an extensive, thought-stopping, non-traditional jargon which has been developed, and constantly-repeated, by the instigators, and associates, of various, copy-cat, major, and minor, ongoing organized crime groups (hiding behind labyrinths of legally-registered corporate structures) to shut-down the critical, and evaluative, faculties of victims, and of casual observers, in order to perpetrate, and dissimulate, a series of blame-the-victim closed-market swindles or pyramid scams (dressed up as 'legitimate direct selling income opportunites'), and related advance-fee frauds (dressed up as 'legitimate training and motivation, self-betterment, programs, recruitment leads, lead generation systems,' etc.).