Consumed - How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole (Paperback)

A powerful sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a vivid portrait of a global economy that overproduces goods and 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. Disturbing, provocative, and compelling, this book examines phenomena as seemingly disparate as adolescent fashion trends for adults, megachurches, declining voter participation, the privatization of the public sphere, branding, and the rise of online shopping to show how the freedoms of the free market have undermined the freedoms of the deliberative adult citizen. Barber brings together extensive empirical research with an original theoretical framework for understanding our contemporary predicament.

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2008
First published:	March 2008
Authors:	Benjamin R. Barber
Dimensions:	211 x 140 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	416
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-33089-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Consumer issues
LSN:	0-393-33089-3
Barcode:	9780393330892

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