Consumed (Paperback)

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.…