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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Benjamin R Barber |
ISBN: | 9780393049619 0393049612 9780393330892 0393330893 |
OCLC Number: | 76871466 |
Description: | x, 406 pages ; 25 cm |
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. |
Other Titles: | Consumed How markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole |
Responsibility: | Benjamin R. Barber. |
More information: | |
Local System Bib Number: | 176641 |
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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 Lears
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"Barber delivers a frightening analysis of the way consumerism is vitiating shoppers in the United States and around the world." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "This lifelong study of the effects of capitalism and privatization reveals a pervasiveness of branding and homogenization from which there is no turning back." -- Booklist "A remarkable book about the shifting nature of capitalism...Beguiling." -- Financial World "[Barber's] thesis has genuine bite." -- Denver Post Read more...
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