Con$umed : how markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole - Barber, Benjamin R. 1939- (New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2007)
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.
Περιέχει βιβλιογραφία (σ. 341-381) και ευρετήριο.
Keywords: Consumption (Economics) -- United States; Consumer behavior -- United States; Child consumers -- United States; Capitalism -- United States; Materialism -- Social aspects -- United States; Mass society; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-