TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barber,Benjamin R.
TI  - Con$umed: how markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole 
SN  - 9780393049619 (hardcover)
AV  - HC110.C6 B324 2007
U1  - 339.4/60973 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton & Co.
KW  - Consumption (Economics)
KW  - United States
KW  - Consumer behavior
KW  - Child consumers
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Materialism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Mass society
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 1980-
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip075/2006039751.html
ER  -