Consumed - How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults & Swallow Citizens Whole
of Benjamin R. Barber
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"Powerful and disturbing. No one who cares about the future of our public life can afford to ignore this book."—Jackson LearsA powerful sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a vivid portrait of an overproducing global economy that targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers and where the primary goal is no longer to manufacture goods but needs. To explain how and why this has come about, Barber brings together extensive empirical research with an original theoretical framework for understanding our contemporary predicament. He asserts that in place of the Protestant ethic once associated with capitalism—encouraging self-restraint, preparing for the future, protecting and self-sacrificing for children and community, and other characteristics of adulthood—we are constantly being seduced into an "infantilist" ethic of consumption.
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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320 pages
- Publisher W.W. Norton
- Publication Date March 19th 2007
- First Publication 10/30/07
- Language English
- ISBN 9780393049619
- Edition Not informed
- Category Non-Fiction
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