The Consumer society.
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- ISBN: 9781559634861 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 1559634863 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
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xxxviii, 385 p. : ill ; 24 cm. - Publisher: Washington, DC : Island Press, c1997.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "The Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University." |
Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword / John Kenneth Galbraith -- Volume Introduction / Neva R. Goodwin -- Asking How Much Is Enough / Alan Durning -- Consumption, Well-Being, and Virtue / David A. Crocker -- The Original Affluent Society / Marshall Sahlins -- The Limits to Satisfaction: Examination / William Leiss -- Will Raising the Incomes of All Increase the Happiness of All? / Richard Easterlin -- The Expansion of Consumption / Allan Schnaiberg -- New Analytic Bases for an Economic Critique of Consumer Society / Juliet Schor -- Consumption: The New Wave of Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences / Colin Campbell -- Traumas of Time and Money in Prosperity and Depression / Gary Cross -- The Insidious Cycle of Work and Spend / Juliet Schor -- Work, Consumption, and the Joyless Consumer / Raymond Benton, Jr. -- The Study of Consumption, Object Domains, Ideology, and Interests and Toward a Theory of Consumption / Daniel Miller -- Notes on the Relationship Between Production and Consumption / Alan Warde -- The Political Economy of Opulence / Harry G. Johnson -- The Increasing Scarcity of Time / Staffan B. Linder -- Social Limits to Growth: The Commercialization Bias / Fred Hirsch -- Changing Consumption Patterns: The Transformation of Orange County Since World War II / Alladi Venkatesh -- The Domestic Production of Monies / Viviana Zelizer -- Sitcoms and Suburbs: Positioning the 1950s Homemaker / Mary Beth Haralovich -- Gender as Commodity / Susan Willis -- Gender and Consumption: Transcending the Feminine? / A. Fuat Firat -- Meanings of Material Possessions as Reflections of Identity / Helga Dittmar -- Friendship or Commodities? The Road Not Taken: Friendship, Consumerism, and Happiness / Robert E. Lane -- Playing with Culture: Toys, TV, and Children's Culture in the Age of Marketing / Stephen Kline -- The History of Consumption: A Literature Review and Consumer Guide / Grant McCracken -- Changes in English and Anglo-American Consumption from 1550 to 1800 / Carole Shammas -- Pictorial Prints and the Growth of Consumerism: Class and Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Culture / Chandra Mukerji -- The Quaker Ethic: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture / David E. Shi -- The Consumer Revolution of Eighteenth-Century England / Neil McKendrick -- Consumerism and the Industrial Revolution / Ben Fine and Ellen Leopold -- Learning to Consume: Early Department Stores and the Shaping of the Modern Consumer Culture (1800-1914) / Rudi Laermans -- From Salvation to Self-Realization: Advertising and the Therapeutic Roots of Consumer Culture / T. J. Jackson Lears -- The Consumer's Comfort and Dream / Gary Cross -- Materialism and Modern Political Philosophy / Joel Jay Kassiola -- The History of Economics from a Humanistic Perspective / Mark A. Lutz and Kenneth Lux -- Capital, Labor, and the Commodity Form / Martyn J. Lee -- Institutional Economics and Consumption / David B. Hamilton -- Keynes' Economic Thought and the Theory of Consumer Behavior / S. A. Drakopoulos -- A Reformulation of the Theory of Saving / James S. Duesenberry -- Bandwagon, Snob, and Veblen Effects in the Theory of Consumers' Demand / Harvey Leibenstein -- The Standard of Living and the Capacity to Save / Ragnar Nurkse -- The Imperatives of Consumer Demand and the Dependence Effect / John Kenneth Galbraith -- Alternative Approaches to Consumer Behavior / Raymond Benton, Jr. -- The Separative Self: Androcentric Bias in Neoclassical Assumptions / Paula England -- Economics, Psychology, and Consumer Behavior / Ben Fine and Ellen Leopold -- The Psychology and Economics of Motivation / Tibor Scitovsky -- The Neglected Realm of Social Scarcity / Fred Hirsch -- The Demand for Unobservable and Other Nonpositional Goods / Robert H. Frank -- Change and Innovation in the Technology of Consumption / Kelvin Lancaster -- Procrastination and Obedience / George A. Akerlof -- The Distorted Mirror: Reflections on the Unintended Consequences of Advertising / Richard Pollay -- Modern Consumerism and Imaginative Hedonism / Colin Campbell -- Social Comparison, Advertising, and Consumer Discontent / Marsha Richins -- Limits to Satisfaction: Diagnosis / William Leiss -- Goods as Satisfiers / William Leiss, Stephen Kline and Sut Jhally -- Introduction to Fables of Abundance / T. J. Jackson Lears -- Advertising / Ben Fine and Ellen Leopold -- The Emergence of American Television: The Formative Years and Toward a New Video Order: The 1980s / J. Fred MacDonald -- Television and the Structuring of Experience / Robert Kubey and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- Theories of Consumption in Media Studies / David Morley -- Household Debt Problems: Toward a Micro-Macro Linkage / Samuel Cameron -- The Allocation and Distribution of Resources / Mark Sagoff -- Market and Nonmarket Determinants of Private Consumption and Their Impacts on the Environment / Mario Cogoy -- Consumption: Value Added, Physical Transformation, and Welfare / Herman Daly -- Creating the Affluent Society / Clive Ponting -- Natural Resource Consumption / World Resources Institute -- The Environmental Costs of Consumption / Alan Durning -- Creating a Sustainable Materials Economy / John E. Young and Aaron Sachs -- Development and the Elimination of Poverty / Nathan Keyfitz -- Third World Consumer Culture / Russell W. Belk -- Positional Goods, Conspicuous Consumption, and the International Demonstration Effect Reconsidered / Jeffrey James -- Advertising in Nonaffluent Societies: Galbraith Revisited / Jeffrey James and Stephen Lister -- The Culture Ideology of Consumerism in the Third World and The Culture Ideology of Consumerism in Urban China / Leslie Sklair -- Transnational Advertising: Some Considerations of the Impact on Peripheral Societies / Noreene Janus -- Transnational Corporations and Third World Consumption: Implications for Competitive Strategies / Rhys Jenkins -- Gross National Consumption in the United States: Implications for Third World Development / Thomas Walz and Edward Canda -- Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren / John Maynard Keynes -- Alternatives to Mass Consumption / Jerome M. Segal -- Exiting the Squirrel Cage / Juliet Schor -- How to Bring Joy into Economics / Tibor Scitovsky -- Qualitative Growth / Fred Block -- The Poverty of Affluence: New Alternatives / Paul Wachtel -- A Culture of Permanence / Alan Durning -- Living More Simply and Civilizational Revitalization / Duane Elgin. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Merritt Campus | HF5415.33 U6 C66 1997 (Text) | 110912 | Regular Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
VIU Library - Nanaimo Campus | HF 5415.33 U6 C66 1997 (Text) | M010354843 | STACKS | Volume hold | Available | - |