Con$umed : how markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole
by
 
Barber, Benjamin R., 1939-

Title
: 
Con$umed : how markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole

Author
: 
Barber, Benjamin R., 1939-

ISBN
: 
9780393049619
 
9780393330892

Personal Author
: 
Barber, Benjamin R., 1939-

Edition
: 
1st ed.

Publication Information
: 
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2007.

Physical Description
: 
x, 406 pages ; 25 cm

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.

Abstract
: 
An examination of the effects of capitalism on American culture and society reveals how consumer capitalism overproduces goods, targets children as consumers, and replaces public goods with private commodities.

Subject Term
: 
Consumption (Economics) -- United States.
 
Consumer behavior -- United States.
 
Child consumers -- United States.
 
Capitalism -- United States.
 
Materialism -- Social aspects -- United States.
 
Mass society.
 
Capitalism. (OCoLC)fst00846425
 
Child consumers. (OCoLC)fst00854389
 
Consumer behavior. (OCoLC)fst00876238
 
Consumption (Economics) (OCoLC)fst00876455
 
Mass society. (OCoLC)fst01011430
 
Materialism -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01011766
 
Social conditions (OCoLC)fst01919811
 
Consumptiemaatschappij.
 
Consumenten.
 
Psychologie.
 
Marketing.
 
Verbraucherverhalten.
 
Kind.

Geographic Term
: 
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
 
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
 
USA.

Electronic Access
: 
Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip075/2006039751.html


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