Paperback. "Powerful and disturbing. No one who cares about the future of our public life can afford to ignore this book."Jackson Lears A powerful sequel to Benjamin R. Barbers best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a vivid portrait of an overproducing global economy that 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. To explain how and why this has come about, Barber brings together extensive empirical research with an original theoretical framework for understanding our contemporary predicament. He asserts that in place of the Protestant ethic once associated with capitalismencouraging self-restraint, preparing for the future, protecting and self-sacrificing for children and community, and other characteristics of adulthoodwe are constantly being seduced into an "infantilist" ethic of consumption. "Powerful and disturbing. No one who cares about the future of our public life can afford to ignore this book." Jackson Lears Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Consumed (Paperback)
Publisher: WW Norton & Co, New York
Publication Date: 2008
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0393330893
ISBN 13: 9780393330892
Binding: Paperback
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: new

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"Powerful and disturbing. No one who cares about the future of our public life can afford to ignore this book." ―Jackson Lears

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.

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

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