Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
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Book Description
A piercing and vital look at how capitalism is consuming U.S. society.
An apt sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a wrenching portrait of how adult consumers are infantilized in a global economy that overproduces goods and targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers. Driven by a frantic imperative to sell,... More
An apt sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a wrenching portrait of how adult consumers are infantilized in a global economy that overproduces goods and targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers. Driven by a frantic imperative to sell,... More
Book Information
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Binding | Hardcover (5 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 320 |
ISBN-10 | 0393049612 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0393049619 |
Publication Date | 03/19/2007 |
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