Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole - Couverture souple

Barber, Benjamin R.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0393330893 ISBN 13 : 9780393330892

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2008

Synopsis

A powerful sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a vivid portrait of a global economy that overproduces goods and targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers--and where the primary goal is no longer to manufacture goods but needs. Disturbing, provocative, and compelling, this book examines phenomena as seemingly disparate as adolescent fashion trends for adults, megachurches, declining voter participation, the privatization of the public sphere, branding, and the rise of online shopping to show how the freedoms of the free market have undermined the freedoms of the deliberative adult citizen. Barber brings together extensive empirical research with an original theoretical framework for understanding our contemporary predicament.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Benjamin R. Barber (1939--2017) was an American political theorist and author, perhaps best known for his 1995 bestseller, Jihad vs. McWorld.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393330893
• ISBN 13: 9780393330892
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
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