| Description |
xxxviii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Frontier issues in economic thought ; v. 2 |
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Frontier issues in economic thought ; v. 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Authors of original articles -- Foreword / John Kenneth Galbraith -- Acknowledgments -- Volume introduction / Neva R. Goodwin -- pt. 1. Scope and definition -- Overview essay / Neva R. Goodwin-- Asking how much is enough / Alan Durning -- Consumption, well-being, and virtue / David A. Crocker -- The original affluent society / Marshall Sahlins -- The limits to satisfaction : examination / William Leiss -- Will raising the incomes of all increase the happiness of all? / Richard Easterlin -- The expansion of consumption / Allan Schnaiberg -- New analytic bases for an economic critique of Consumer Society / Juliet Schor -- Consumption : the new wave of research in the humanities and social sciences / Colin Campbell -- pt. 2. Consumption in the affluent society -- Overview essay / David Kiron -- Traumas of time and money in prosperity and depression/ Gary Cross -- The insidious cycle of work and spend / Juliet Schor -- Work, consumption, and the joyless consumer / Raymond Benton, Jr. -- The study of consumption, object domains, ideology, and interests ; Toward a theory of consumption / Daniel Miller -- Notes on the relationship between production and consumption / Alan Warde -- The political economy of opulence / Harry G. Johnson -- The increasing scarcity of time / Staffan B. Linder -- Social limits to growth : the commercialization bias / Fred Hirsch -- Changing consumption patterns : the transformation of Orange County since World War II / Alladi Venkatesh -- |
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pt. 3. Family, gender, and socialization -- Overview essay / David Kiron and Seymour Bellin -- The domestic production of monies / Viviana Zelizer -- Sitcoms and suburbs : positioning the 1950s homemaker / Mary Beth Haralovich -- Gender as commodity / Susan Willis -- Gender and consumption : transcending the feminine? / A. Fuat Firat -- Meanings of material possessions as reflections of identity / Helga Dittmar -- Friendship or commodities? The road not taken : friendship, consumerism, and happiness / Robert E. Lane -- Playing with culture : toys, TV, and children's culture in the age of marketing / Stephen Kline -- pt. 4. The history of consumer society -- Overview essay / Frank Ackerman -- The history of consumption : a literature review and consumer guide / Grant McCracken -- Changes in English and Anglo-American consumption from 1550 to 1800 / Carole Shammas -- Pictorial prints and the growth of consumerism : class and cosmopolitanism in early modern culture / Chandra Mukerji -- The Quaker ethic : plain living and high thinking in American culture / David E. Shi -- The consumer revolution of eighteenth-century England / Neil McKendrick -- Consumerism and the Industrial Revolution / Ben Fine and Ellen Leopold -- Learning to consume : early department stores and the shaping of the modern consumer culture (1800-1914) / Rudi Laermans -- From salvation to self-realization : advertising and the therapeutic roots of consumer culture / T.J. Jackson Lears -- The consumer's comfort and dream / Gary Cross -- |
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pt. 5. Foundations of economic theories of consumption -- Overview essay / Frank Ackerman -- materialism and modern political philosophy / Joel Jay Kassiola -- The history of economics from a humanistic perspective / Mark A. Lutz and Kenneth Lux -- Capital, labor, and the commodity form / Martyn J. Lee -- Institutional economics and consumption / David B. Hamilton -- Keynes' economic thought and the theory of consumer behavior / S.A. Drakopoulos -- A reformulation of the theory of saving / James S. Duesenberry -- Bandwagon, snob, and Veblen effects in the theory of consumers' demand / Harvey Leibenstein -- The standard of living and the capacity to save / Ragnar Nurkse -- The imperatives of consumer demand and the dependence effect / John Kenneth Galbraith -- pt. 6. Critiques and alternatives in economic theory -- Overview essay / Frank Ackerman -- Alternative approaches to consumer behavior / Raymond Benton, Jr. -- The separative self : androcentric bias in neoclassical assumptions / Paula England -- Economics, psychology, and consumer behavior / Ben Fine and Ellen Leopold -- The psychology and economics of motivation / Tibor Scitovsky -- The neglected realm of social scarcity / Fred Hirsch -- The demand for unobservable and other nonpositional goods / Robert H. Frank -- Change and innovation in the technology of consumption / Kelvin Lancaster -- Procrastination and obedience / George A. Akerlof -- |
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pt. 7. Perpetuating consumer culture : media, advertising, and wants creation -- Overview essay / David Kiron -- The distorted mirror : reflections on the unintended consequences of advertising / Richard Pollay -- Modern consumerism and imaginative hedonism / Colin Campbell -- Social comparison, advertising, and consumer discontent / Marsha Richins -- Limits to satisfaction : diagnosis / William Leiss -- Goods as satisfiers / William Leiss, Stephen Kline, and Sut Jhally -- Introduction to fables of abundance / T.J. Jackson Lears -- Advertising / Ben Fine and Ellen Leopold -- The emergence of American television : the formative years ; Toward a new video order : the 1980s / J. Fred MacDonald -- Television and the structuring of experience / Robert Kubey and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- Theories of consumption in media studies / David Morley -- Household debt problems : toward a micro-macro linkage / Samuel Cameron -- pt. 8. Consumption and the environment -- Overview essay / Jonathan Harris -- The allocation and distribution of resources / Mark Sagoff -- Market and nonmarket determinants of private consumption and their impacts on the environment / Mario Cogoy -- Consumption : value added, physical transformation, and welfare / Herman Daly -- Creating the affluent society / Clive Ponting -- Natural resource consumption / World Resources Institute -- The environmental costs of consumption / Alan Durning -- Creating a sustainable materials economy / John E. Young and Aaron Sachs -- |
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pt. 9. Globalization and consumer culture -- Overview essay / Kevin Gallagher -- Development and the elimination of poverty / Nathan Keyfitz -- Third World consumer culture / Russell W. Belk -- Positional goods, conspicuous consumption, and the international demonstration effect reconsidered / Jeffrey James -- Advertising in nonaffluent societies : Galbraith revisited / Jeffrey James and Stephen Lister -- The culture-ideology of consumerism in the Third World ; The culture-ideology of consumerism in urban China / Leslie Sklair -- Transnational advertising : some considerations of the impact on peripheral societies / Noreene Janus -- Transnational corporations and Third World consumption : implications for competitive strategies / Rhys Jenkins -- Gross national consumption in the United States : implications for Third World development / Thomas Walz and Edward Canda -- pt. 10. Visions of an alternative -- Overview essay / Neva R. Goodwin -- Economic possibilities for our grandchildren / John Maynard Keynes -- Alternatives to mass consumption / Jerome M. Segal -- Exiting the squirrel cage / Juliet Schor -- How to bring joy into our economics / Tibor Scitovsky -- Qualitative growth / Fred Block -- The poverty of affluence : new alternatives / Paul Wachtel -- A culture of permanence / Alan Durning -- Living more simply and civilizational revitalization / Duane Elgin -- Subject index -- Name index. |
| Subject |
Consumer behavior -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Goodwin, Neva R.
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Ackerman, Frank.
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Kiron, David.
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| ISBN |
1559634855 hardback |
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9781559634854 hardback |
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1559634863 paperback |
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9781559634861 paperback |
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