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

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton, 2007.

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Description x, 406 s. ; 25 cm
Bibliography 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
Summary "Consumed" offers a portrait of how adults are infantilised in a global economy that overproduces goods and targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers. Driven by a frantic imperative to sell, consumer capitalism specialises today in the manufacture not of goods but of needs. This provocative culmination of Benjamin R. Barber's lifelong study of democracy and capitalism shows how the infantilist ethos deprives society of responsible citizens and displaces public goods with private commodities. Traditional liberal democratic society is colonised by an all-pervasive market imperative. Barber confronts the likely consequences for our children, our freedom and our citizenship, and shows how citizens can resist and transcend the civic schizophrenia with which consumerism has infected them
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 -- 1980-2020
globalisering.
global samfundsudvikling.
samfundsudvikling.
samfundsforhold.
økonomiske systemer.
forbrug.
forbrugere.
Born.
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
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term Since 1980
Added Author Barber, Benjamin R., 1939-2017
Added Title Consumed
ISBN 9780393049619 (hardcover)
0393049612 (hardcover)
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