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

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

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Con$umed : how markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole
Title
Con$umed
Title remainder
how markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole
Statement of responsibility
Benjamin R. Barber
Title variation
  • Consumed
  • Con $umed
  • How markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1939-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Barber, Benjamin R.
Dewey number
339.4/70973
Index
index present
LC call number
HC110.C6
LC item number
B324 2007
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Consumption (Economics)
  • Consumer behavior
  • Child consumers
  • Capitalism
  • Materialism
  • Mass society
  • United States
Label
Con$umed : how markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole, Benjamin R. Barber
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
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
Dimensions
25 cm.
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
x, 406 p.
Isbn
9780393049619
Isbn Type
(hardcover)
Lccn
2006039751
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o76871466
  • (OCoLC)76871466
Label
Con$umed : how markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole, Benjamin R. Barber
Publication
Bibliography note
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
Dimensions
25 cm.
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
x, 406 p.
Isbn
9780393049619
Isbn Type
(hardcover)
Lccn
2006039751
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o76871466
  • (OCoLC)76871466

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