Too much for our own good
Subtitle: the consumeritis epidemic and good movies
By: Harrison Sheppard and Alex Aris
Contributors: Aris, Alex
Publisher: Aristotle & Alexander Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780977991402
Subjects: Motion pictures; Consumer behavior; Consumption (Economics); Materialism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-337) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: what this book is about; title: Too much of a good thing: an overview of the culture of buying and selling; title: Life, liberty, and our pursuit of happiness: the struggle with ourselves in a culture of buying and selling; title: The social costs of consumerities: danage to individuals, families, and American society; title: U.S. and global economics of consumerities: risks and opportunities; title: The environmental wasteland: pollution, waste, litter, and global warming; title: The political costs of consumerities: threatened loss of citizenship and civil liberty; title: Consumerities and international insecurity: Cinema Paradiso and global inferno; title: What is to be done: cures for consumeritis.