Title: The waste makers /
Authors: Packard, Vance, 1914-1996
Publisher: Ig Pub.,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Waste (Economics) United States.; Industries United States
Abstract: Reveals the tactics used by businesses to create consumer needs and desires for products that waste resources and finances in addition to undermining human values and independence.
Contents: Introduction / by Bill McKibben -- Part I. The developing dilemma. -- City of the future? -- The nagging prospects of satuation -- "Growthmanship" -- Part II. In response, nine strategies. -- There's always room for more -- Progress through the throwaway spirit -- Progress through planned obsolescence -- Planned obsolescence of desirability -- How to outmode a $4,000 vehicle in two years -- America's toughest car : and thirty models later -- The short, sweet life of home products -- Fashion lines for the kitchen -- The repairman's paradise -- Progress through planned chaos -- Selling on the never-never -- Hedonism for the masses -- Progress through proliferation of people -- Part III. Implications. -- Ever-mounting consumption? -- The vanishing resources -- The commercialization of American life -- The changing American character -- Part IV. Some suggested courses. -- Restoring pride in prudence -- Restoring pride in quality -- Respecting the eternal balance -- Facing the unmet challenges -- Achieving an enduring style of life.