Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole

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Book
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ISBN 13
9780393330892
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SDG 12: Nachhaltige/r Konsum und Produktion
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Publication Year
2008
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Pages
416
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A powerful sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's 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 capitalism―encouraging self-restraint, preparing for the future, protecting and self-sacrificing for children and community, and other characteristics of adulthood―we are constantly being seduced into an "infantilist" ethic of consumption.
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