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

By: Barber, Benjamin R, 1939-Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007Description: x, 406 p. ; 25 cmISBN: 9780393330893(pbk)Subject(s): 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-DDC classification: 339.4
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.
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339 ABE-M 2014 4009 Macroeconomics / 339 TOF-R 2006 9794 Revolutionary wealth / 339.220973 REY-I 2006 13398 Income and wealth / 339.4 BAR-C 2007 7435 Con$umed : 339.4 MIL-S 2009 5298 Spent : 339.4 SAC-E 2005 5798 The end of poverty : 339 HAL-M 2005 6255 Macroeconomics :

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

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.

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