Consumer culture
By: Heidi Watkins, book editor
Series: Issues that concern you
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780737752069
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Consumer culture harms society / Benjamin Barber, interviewed by Kimberly Palmer; title: Consumer culture benefits society / Howard Bloom; title: Consumer culture harms children and teens / Madeline Levine; title: Teen spending habits have changed / Natalie Zmuda; title: Rejecting consumerism is beneficial / Robert Llewellyn; title: Rejecting consumerism is not realistic / Tim Cavanaugh; title: High socio-economic status causes depression / Peter Dodson; title: Advertising is to blame for overconsumption / Jean Kilbourne; title: Human instinct is to blame for overconsumption / John Naish; title: American consumers are becoming more careful spenders / Noreen O?Leary; title: What you should know about consumer culture; title: What you should do about consumer culture.