Con$umed
Subtitle: how markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole
By: Benjamin R. Barber.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780393049619
Subjects: Consumption (Economics) -- United States; Consumer behavior -- United States; Child consumers -- United States; Capitalism -- United States; Materialism -- Social aspects -- United States; Mass society; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
Other titles: Consumed; Con $umed; How markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-381) and index.
Table of contents: title: The birth of consumers. Capitalism triumphant and the infantilist ethos ; From protestantism to puerility; title: The eclipse of citizens. Infantilizing consumers: the coming of kidults ; Privatizing citizens: the making of civic schizophrenia ; Branding identities: the loss of meaning ; Totalizing society: the end of diversity; title: The fate of citizens. Resisting consumerism: can capitalism cure itself? ; Overcoming civic schizophrenia: restoring citizenship in a world of interdependence.