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The consumer society

Goodwin, Neva R. (Added Author). Ackerman, Frank. (Added Author). Kiron, David. (Added Author).

Summary: "The Consumer Society provides brief summaries of the most important and influential writings on the economic, environmental, ethical, and social implications of a consumer society and consumer lifestyles. It is an essential guide to the field and will interest anyone concerned with the deeper implications of consumerism. It is the second volume in the Frontier Issues in Economic Thought series, which provides surveys of the most significant writings in emergent areas of economics."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 1559634855 (hbk.)
ISBN: 9781559634854 (hbk.)
ISBN: 1559634863 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9781559634861 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1417539372 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781417539376 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781597267908 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1597267902 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xxxviii, 385 p.) : ill.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c1997.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:january.19 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:	Authors of original articles -- Foreword / John Kenneth Galbraith -- Acknowledgments -- Volume introduction / Neva R. Goodwin -- pt. 1. Scope and definition -- Overview essay / 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 -- pt. 2. Consumption in the affluent society -- Overview essay / David Kiron -- 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 ; 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.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.