The consumer society
By: edited by I.R.C. Hirst and W. Duncan Reekie
Series: The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library. Anthropology -- 5
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Consumers; Congresses; Consumption (Economics)
Notes: "Covers the principal contributions to a seminar organized by the Faculty of Social Sciences of Edinburgh University in May 1973"--Preface.

"First published in 1977"--Title page verso.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Years of paradox : consumption in the 1930s / W. Vamplew; title: Consumption and pollution / M. Desai; title: Private and public consumption / Alan Thomson; title: Consumer choice and collective choice / I.R.C. Hirst; title: The market in advertising / W. Duncan Reekie; title: 'Zen' affluence in a subsistence economy of Bougainville, Solomon Islands / J. Rutherford; title: The ideology of private consumption / Mark Abrams; title: Consumerism and the law / W.A. Wilson; title: The market in and consumption of housing / F.G. Pennance; title: Consumption, health, and old age / Gillian R. Stanley.