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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Island Press,
©1997.
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| Colección: | Frontier issues in economic thought ;
v. 2. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.