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The consumer society /

"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...

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Други автори: Goodwin, Neva R., Ackerman, Frank., Kiron, David.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Washington, D.C. : Island Press, ℗♭1997.
Серия: Frontier issues in economic thought ; v. 2.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Consumer society.
Съдържание:
  • 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.
  • pt. 3.
  • Family, gender, and socialization
  • Overview essay /
  • David Kiron
  • and
  • Seymour Bellin
  • 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
  • pt. 4.
  • The history of consumer society
  • Overview essay /
  • Frank Ackerman
  • 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.
  • pt. 5.
  • Foundations of economic theories of consumption
  • Overview essay /
  • Frank Ackerman
  • 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
  • pt. 6.
  • Critiques and alternatives in economic theory
  • Overview essay /
  • Frank Ackerman
  • 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.
  • pt. 7.
  • Perpetuating consumer culture : media, advertising, and wants creation
  • Overview essay /
  • David Kiron
  • 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 ;
  • 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
  • pt. 8.
  • Consumption and the environment
  • Overview essay /
  • Jonathan Harris
  • 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.
  • pt. 9.
  • Globalization and consumer culture
  • Overview essay /
  • Kevin Gallagher
  • 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 ;
  • 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
  • pt. 10.
  • Visions of an alternative
  • Overview essay /
  • Neva R. Goodwin
  • 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 our 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
  • Subject index
  • Name index.