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Author:

Barber, Benjamin R., 1939-

Title:

Con$umed : how markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole / Benjamin R. Barber.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

W.W. Norton & Co.,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

x, 406 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Consumption (Economics)--United States.
Consumer behavior--United States.
Child consumers--United States.
Capitalism--United States.
Materialism--Social aspects--United States.
Mass society.
United States--Social conditions--1980-
Consumptiemaatschappij
Consumenten.
Psychologie.
Marketing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-381) and index.

Contents:

The birth of consumers. Capitalism triumphant and the infantilist ethos ; From protestantism to puerility -- The eclipse of citizens. Infantilizing consumers: the coming of kidults ; Privatizing citizens: the making of civic schizophrenia ; Branding identities: the loss of meaning ; Totalizing society: the end of diversity -- The fate of citizens. Resisting consumerism: can capitalism cure itself? ; Overcoming civic schizophrenia: restoring citizenship in a world of interdependence.

ISBN:

0393330893 (pbk.)
9780393330892 (pbk.)
0393049612 (hardcover)
9780393049619 (hardcover)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)76871466

LCCN:

2006039751

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