Con$umed : how markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole /
Consumed Con $umed How markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole
Benjamin R. Barber.
- 1st ed.
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007.
- x, 406 p. ; 25 cm.
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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Consumption (Economics)--United States. Consumer behavior--United States. Child consumers--United States. Capitalism--United States. Materialism--Social aspects--United States. Mass society.