| Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole Contributor(s): Barber, Benjamin R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393330893 ISBN-13: 9780393330892 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2008 Annotation: This provocative culmination of Barber's lifelong study of democracy and capitalism confronts the likely consequences of consumerism on our children, our liberty, and our citizenship, and shows finally how citizens can resist and transcend the culture of over-consumption. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Consumer Behavior - General - Political Science | Political Economy - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 339.460 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (0.85 lbs) 416 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A powerful sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a vivid portrait of a global economy that overproduces goods and targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers--and where the primary goal is no longer to manufacture goods but needs. Disturbing, provocative, and compelling, this book examines phenomena as seemingly disparate as adolescent fashion trends for adults, megachurches, declining voter participation, the privatization of the public sphere, branding, and the rise of online shopping to show how the freedoms of the free market have undermined the freedoms of the deliberative adult citizen. Barber brings together extensive empirical research with an original theoretical framework for understanding our contemporary predicament. |
Contributor Bio(s): Barber, Benjamin R.: - Benjamin R. Barber (1939--2017) was an American political theorist and author, perhaps best known for his 1995 bestseller, Jihad vs. McWorld. |